Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Pumpkin Patch
by London Lovett
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Sunni Taylor’s sisters, through their power of sisterly persuasion, have convinced her to host a Halloween costume party at Cider Ridge Inn. She’s a little reluctant about the whole event and rightly worried about the actual ghost, who will, no doubt, be in attendance, but she decides to just relax and enjoy it. Of course, you can’t have a spooky Halloween party without toothy-grinned jack-o’-lanterns.
Sunni talks Jackson into spending their day off at a local pumpkin patch. The Riggle Family Farm is famous for its sprawling pumpkin patch and mind-boggling corn maize…
Kingdom of Darkness Box Set
by Mark Goodwin
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Accused of domestic terrorism, Emilio Vega was on his way to death row when the mega-quake hit. The streets beneath his transport vehicle buckled, tossing the van in the air like a toy. He survived the crash, but the world is now in ruins. However, for a condemned man, this disaster may be just the lucky break he needed. Emilio has been left behind!
Can Emilio and Mackenzie survive the gauntlet of destruction known as the Great Tribulation?
THE MARLOW MURDERS
by BIBA PEARCE
Rating: 4.6 #ad
FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS, A HEARTSTOPPING MYSTERY FROM YOUR NEW CRIME FICTION OBSESSION: BIBA PEARCE.
Debby Morris, mother of two, goes to a Christmas party at historic Hollyhock Manor in Marlow, and never comes home.
A MISSING MOTHER. Her phone, handbag and Santa’s elf hat are found in a park near the River Thames. The police issue a nationwide search, but Debby is nowhere to be found.
Three weeks later, Debby’s body, still in her elf costume, is discovered five miles downstream from where she disappeared.
A DETECTIVE ON THE BRINK.
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(Detective Rob Miller Mysteries)
Abandon
by Blake Crouch
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A century-old mystery – and a desperate battle to survive – unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found.
Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her historian father have set out to explore the long-abandoned town and learn what happened. With them are two backcountry guides—along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer who are there to investigate rumors that the town is haunted.
The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Rating: 4.6 #ad
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic.
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War.
To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.
Royally Whacked
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From best-selling author P.C. James and Kathryn Mykel–author of award-winning Sewing Suspicion & Quilting Calamity.
A Duchess, her trusted butler, and a nose-it-all furry sidekick.
London, 1959. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury has received an invitation to an English countryside estate for a week of summer events—a gorgeous garden tea party and a couples tennis game, what could possibly go wrong?
Will the three debutants prove their new sleuthing skills are helpful in serving up a murderer, or will Lady Mary find out that they’ve met their match?
Santa Cruise
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.3 #ad
At Ridgewood High, Amy, Frankie, Rachael, and Nina formed a deep bond. Now, fifteen years after leaving school behind, they’re back for a reunion, laughing, reminiscing, and chatting about how much has changed—and how much hasn’t. All four are strong, successful, and somehow, still looking for the right partner. But Frankie has an idea to help solve that: a singles cruise for the holidays.
In late December, the four friends gather in Miami, ready to board their state-of-the-art cruise ship. The entertainment options are endless, the food is to die for, and the passenger list includes hundreds of eligible men.
Ranger Faith
by Lynn Shannon
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s a deadly holiday season…
Last Christmas, profiler Emilia Sanchez barely escaped the clutches of a serial killer. All she wants is to forget the incident and move on with her life, especially since the murderer is dead. But when she receives a poinsettia along with a threatening message, it triggers Emilia’s worst fears—that she’s not safe after all.
Texas Ranger Bennett Knox has steered clear of Emilia since the day he rescued her from a killer. The beautiful profiler is smart and brave, but Bennett knows his presence brings back painful memories. The case has always haunted him too. He had concerns with the way the investigation ended.
Imperfect Angel
by Christi Barth
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Three days ago, all Maisy Norgate had was a stack of bills, about a gazillion jobs, and her sunny-as-hell outlook. Now, thanks to an uncle she never knew about, she’s inherited an ornate skeleton key with absolutely no idea what it’s for—or why she has it. Which is exactly when a ridiculously handsome guy claiming to be an angel shows up at her door and all hell breaks loose…
Nephilim Rhys Boyce cannot believe that Maisy is the new Keeper of the Key. Why would anyone bequeath this warm, bubbly redhead the key to Hell? And to make matters worse, she’s given the key to the first person who asked for it. A demon. Yep, Maisy is determined to make his job—not to mention some seriously inconvenient temptation—as hard as possible.
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That Time I Died
by Naomi Peled Schneider
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When healthy, athletic, 18-year-old Yair finds himself bedridden in a hospital room and is informed that he is paralyzed from the neck down and may never walk again, his whole life shatters around him. While his family and friends believe it to be the result of a terrible accident, could the truth reveal a premeditated act?
Alone, confined to his bed, Yair finds refuge in the most unexpected place. Soon, the only thing keeping him going is the one-on-one conversations he begins having with God.
When Yair fails to wake up from his last surgery, he is left suspended between two worlds – our world and the beyond. With time running short, he realizes his death is quickly approaching.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Royally Whacked
by P.C. James, Kathryn Mykel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Brand New Release
A Duchess, her trusted butler, and a nose-it-all furry sidekick.
London, 1959. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury has received an invitation to an English countryside estate for a week of summer events—a gorgeous garden tea party and a couples tennis game, what could possibly go wrong?
Will the three debutants prove their new sleuthing skills are helpful in serving up a murderer, or will Lady Mary find out that they’ve met their match?
No Safe Place
by Robin Mahle
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What she discovered will be the death of her.
Detective Rebecca Ellis has some big shoes to fill. Her father was the legendary detective, Hank Ellis, now retired from the Bangor Police Department. Emerging from his shadow hasn’t been easy.
So when she’s assigned to work with new hire, Detective Euan McCallister, Ellis is determined to keep their investigation right on track.
The explosive fire in a church parking lot looks straightforward at first. Claire Allen, a volunteer at the church, burned to death in her car. But then Ellis discovers the seatbelt had been rigged, trapping Claire in the inferno. This was no accident. It was murder.
Deceptive Whispers Collection
by Multile Authors
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Immerse yourself in a riveting collection of Christian romantic suspense stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Five thrilling tales of faith, love, and danger that will inspire you, touch your heart, and leave you breathless.
In the pages of these books, you’ll find Navy SEALS and small-town detectives, a tough-as-nails female bodyguard, a country music sensation, and everyday women escaping dangerous men.
Primal Creatures
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When you hear the howls, don’t go near the swamp
Paranormal investigator Wyatt deals with a heinous death on an island resort for actors, artists, and writers. Strange monks, Cajun werewolves, and people in a fishing village who practice voodoo populate the island. An old voodoo woman tells Wyatt, “There are creatures on this island that only walk at night.” Will Wyatt solve the murder mystery and uncover the island’s dark secret, or become a victim to the swamp’s horrid creatures?
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Cry of the Banshee
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham comes a new story in her Krewe of Hunters series…
Strange things are happening at Castle Darien, the legendary home of Angela Hawkins Crow’s family just outside of Dublin, Ireland.
People are dying in the most unusual ways: drowning where there’s no water, falling from heights that don’t exist…
But before every death, the banshee lets out a cry, warning that loved ones are in danger. The Irish death ghost’s haunting shrieks and sobs echo within the ancient stone walls and travel up and down the hillsides.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.2 #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.
Quantum Shift
by Kyle Johnson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
PHASE SHIFT INCOMING!
Your local sector has been selected to undergo a Quantum Phase Shift in order to increase its habitability. Any humans who survive this process will receive more information on these changes. Expected Survival Rate: 1 – 5% Phase Shift begins in 3…2…1…Commence Phase Shift!
Troias Drakos awakens to find that the world he knew is gone, and a new reality has risen to take its place. Most of Earth’s life was killed in a single instant, and those that survived have been granted powers and abilities that seem almost magical. Unfortunately, this world is filled with terrors and monsters that are equally powerful…or far more so. Only by uniting and learning to use their new abilities will humanity survive.
The Prestimion Trilogy
by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The epic sci-fi fantasy Majipoor Cycle continues with the saga of Lord Prestimion, whose rise to power is beset by war and madness.
Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg returns to the richly imagined world of Majipoor. Collected here in one volume is the complete Prestimion Trilogy, set hundreds of years before the events of the first three novels.
In Sorcerers of Majipoor, a peaceful transfer of power is threatened by a cunning rival to the throne. In Lord Prestimion, peace returns to Majipoor, but at a terrible price. And in King of Dreams, Prestimion prepares to ascend to the role of Pontifax as a plague of nightmares spreads across the planet.
The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouk’s masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is “a novel of brilliant virtuosity” (Times Literary Supplement).
Herman Wouk’s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life–and mutiny–on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II.
