Mysteries
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at Pawprint Creek
by Cindy Bell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A dog-loving sleuth. A baffling murder. To catch the killer, she’ll have to follow her nose.
Nikki Green wouldn’t trade her job as a dog walker and pet sitter for anything. But even she needs an occasional break from the tangled leashes of her daily routes. When she’s asked to pet sit a pair of adorable pugs in a quaint farm town, she thinks she’s found her perfect vacation. But the grass isn’t greener in Pawprint Creek. The crops are as dead as one of the town’s residents.
Smoke Screen
by Jorn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren’t adding up … The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix & Ramm series.
Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert.
Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Semplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier … and never found.
Macy
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A serial killer is on the loose in Chicago. It’s a race against time to find her.
Cliff must garner all of his abilities, with help from his wife, Julia. The FBI profiler says that the killer is hiding in plain sight. Is she closer than Cliff can ever imagine?
Best Selling Author, Terry Toler, has a way of writing mysteries that captivates the reader from the first chapter to the end.
Sometimes you know who the killer is from the beginning. Sometimes you think you know and are wrong. Other times you have no clue. Every mystery is different.
The Mechanical Devil
by Kate Ellis
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Secrets never stay buried for long . . .
When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find.
Soon, however, the sleepy village becomes the focus of press attention for another reason when two people with no apparent connection to each other are found shot dead in nearby Manor Field, seemingly victims of an execution-style double murder.
Precious Little Things
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A prequel to the magical novella Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Precious Little Things” is a Tor.com Original short story offering a new perspective while set in the same action-packed gaslamp world.
“A world of fantasy, where magic rules and where those, unaware of the little made things, pay with their lives for their careless breaking into the realm of pure magic, beware for their size does not matter but the power of their magic and resolve does. This short story ties the lose ends in the sequel very nicely for those of us who have read it.” by Amazon Customer
The Victorious Redemption Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jasmine’s world should have ended when she tumbled from that 17th-story window…
Instead, she dug herself out of her own grave.
Now she’s on a search for answers about herself and her past.
Get this complete series boxed set and join Jasmine in her fight to discover the truth of her own origin!
Jasmine is coming back for the man who killed her.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Fudge-Laced Felonies
by Cynthia Hickey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Diamonds, cash, and a bloody gardening glove.
Summer Meadows went to church not to find God, but to hunt for a killer.
While transplanting the rosebush her church’s handsome greeter, Ethan Banning, inadvertently killed, Summer and Ethan discover a hidden stash of diamonds, a rusty can full of cash, and a bloody-gardening glove. This discovery sets Summer and her candy-making aunt on a search for a killer.
The House on Serpent Lake
by Brenda Hill
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dreams of a lover from another time haunt her sleep….
A ghost? Reincarnation? Or was she losing her mind?
Strange things happen when she sees the decaying house for the first time: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. Hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her through the house. A stirring of air whispers, “Remember . . . remember.”
When her husband inherits his abandoned childhood home on a north woods lake, Lindsay Peterson is delighted. But when she sees the decaying home for the first time, strange things happen: she knows how the rooms are arranged, knows of a gazebo that hasn’t existed for fifty years. A sense of loss overwhelms her. After they move in, hints of Bay Rum aftershave follow her footsteps and awaken memories of a past life in that house. Dreams of a lover haunt her sleep, then intrude on her days with déjà vu until the present blurs with the past. A stirring of air caresses her with a whispered touch: Welcome home.
Haunted
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times–Bestselling Author: She’s a paranormal investigator. He’s a skeptic. But ghosts don’t care whether you believe in them or not . . .
Sheriff Matt Stone doesn’t believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house.
But he isn’t ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne. As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable…
Four Days Famous
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mylas Grey doesn’t want to be famous. Not even for a day. As a private investigator, he prefers to fly under the radar.
However, when a well-known doctor asks Mylas to investigate his father’s murder, that’s exactly what happens. Suddenly, Mylas is dodging reporters while interviewing suspects and searching for the dead man’s elusive girlfriend.
In the end, he narrows his suspects down to three people . . .
First, there’s the fired employee . . . The man had opportunity and means, but did he have enough fire in his belly?
Then, there’s the ambitious daughter . . . She had motive, opportunity, and means, but would she really kill her own father?
And finally, there’s the disgruntled client . . . He had motive and means, but did he have opportunity?
The Lies We Tell
by Debra Webb
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn’t know is that Rowan is ready for him. And more than anything she wants answers. How well did the depraved killer actually know her mother? And how many lies have been spun in the years since she took her own life?
Working alongside her childhood friend Police Chief Billy Brannigan, Rowan is determined to get to the bottom of her mother’s puzzling suicide once and for all—even if it means exposing an unsettling past.
Manhattan Ember
by Olive Collins
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“The Bestselling Award-Winning Author has produced the greatest novel on the Irish-American story,” The Post
In 1866, onboard an immigrant ship bound for New York, events play out which have an everlasting effect on their lives, and the lives of their offspring.
Marguerite Kelley, the daughter of an esteemed Irish immigrant grew up in a home that was dominated by the disappearance of her uncle. On a windy morning in November 1905, she is the first to hear about the discovery of a skeleton tucked under the eaves of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Manhattan. Suspecting the remains are that of her uncle who worked on the construction of the Cathedral, she wants to be the first person to break the news to Roisin, his widow, and to her Irish-born father Patrick Kilbane. She hopes the discovery will solve a mystery that has over-shadowed her family for a quarter of a century…
Bitter Flowers
by Gunnar Staalesen
Rating: 4.0 #ad
PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when a challenging assignment arrives on his desk.
A man is found dead in an elite swimming pool and a young woman has gone missing. Most chillingly, Varg Veum is asked to investigate the ‘Camilla Case’: an eight-year-old cold case involving the disappearance of a little girl, who was never found.
House Beside the River
by David Burnett
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A coming-of-age novel with a strong heroine, a sweet love story, and a suspenseful struggle between good and evil
Running from vile rumors and merciless ridicule, thirteen-year-old Nicole Beaumont flees her home in Parsons Valley, Georgia. In the farming community where she lived, almost any transgression could be tolerated, excused, or overlooked, any transgression, save one that smacked of sex, and, according to rumor, that was exactly what she had done while lying with Chris Miller on the bank of Parsons Pond. It was a lie, the worst part at any rate, but Chris̶ refused to deny the rumor. Chris, the boy who had been her best-friend-for-life, her soul mate, the one with whom she was supposed to spend her life, he allowed everyone to believe the rumor to be true.