Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Joe Hill
by Joe Hill
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Get four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror. Read on if you dare to see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.
The Good King
by George WB Scott
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This history-based tale behind the legend of Good King Wenceslas is a thrilling journey through 10th-century Bohemia. Wenceslas devoted his life to charity-but this is no happy Christmas fable.
Duke Boleslav, brother to Wenceslas, reveals to his young son his own life’s dreadful tale, and why this boy must dedicate his life to his father’s salvation.
Pagan priests vie with one another and with the growing power of Christianity. Prague is a trading center with an important slave market, a thriving iron industry, and is a crossroads of far-reaching trade routes. It is growing in wealth, yet threatened by jealous enemies and forces, both external and within its borders.
The Screaming Room
by Thomas O’Callaghan
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Tourism in New York City is under siege. Visitors to the Big Apple have become targets of a pair of vengeful twins bent on exacting punishment on total strangers to right the wrongs perpetrated against them in a hellhole they called home. Their audacious killing spree leaves men and women of all ages and ethnicities brutally murdered then scalped, their lifeless forms displayed in macabre fashion at landmarks throughout the metropolis.
NYPD Homicide Commander John W. Driscoll, along with his dedicated team of Sgt. Margaret Aligante and Det. Cedric Thomlinson, is determined to bring the pair to justice—as is a despicable grieving father whose idea of justice is at odds with morality itself.
Drug of Choice
by Michael Crichton
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Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain.
One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.
The Order of the Black Robe
by Tiana Dokerty
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In a kingdom overrun by shadows, one girl’s abduction sparks the light of hope.
Rebekah Otual lives a peaceful life in the kingdom of Freislicht. While her husband Jonathan, a Knight of J’shua, is off on a missionary journey, she is happy to stay at home raising her six-year-old daughter Sarah.
But when an official from the earl shows up one morning with soldiers demanding immediate payment for a debt and Rebekah has no means to pay it, Sarah is snatched as collateral…
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
by James Lee Burke
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Iry Paret’s done his time – two years for manslaughter in Louisiana’s Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan.
In prison, Iry tinkered with a song – “The Lost Get-Back Boogie” – that never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family’s problems hand him a new kind of trouble, with some tragic consequences. And Iry must get the tune right at last, or pay a fateful price.
Devil’s Garden
by Aline Templeton
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When DCI Kelso Strang hears that an old friend from his police college days suspects there is corruption in her local station at Halliburgh in the Borders of Scotland, he sends her undercover so they can act before a major scandal erupts. What he doesn’t expect is that this will have to take a back seat to an extraordinary series of events that unfold as revenge for a long-concealed and ugly secret takes its tragic course. Just as the situation becomes critical, the Beast from the East roars in bringing chaos and Strang can do nothing but rage and wait for the thaw.
Not On My Watch
by Jesse Storm
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Jackson Chandler, a Union Army veteran, values Afton town’s calm and quiet as do most of the townsfolk. And Afton, in Kansas, wants no part of being a cattle town.
Cattle, plentiful in Texas, have to be shipped back east to a hungry public, who couldn’t get enough beef. The closest railroad hubs are in Kansas. Texas drovers move massive herds through Indian Territory and into Kansas.
Corrupt banker Morton Ludwig wants his share of the lucrative cattle trade and will do anything to make Afton a wide open yet violent cattle town. He has help from a vicious outlaw he employs, named Decker Odom…
The 4S Project
by Marshall Armstrong
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In the year 2119 the human race started a population decline due to a vaccine that was invented rendering individuals sterile. This drug became so widespread that almost everyone between the ages of 18 and 57 has opted to take the vaccine.
In 2150, Armachez Inc. created a widely accepted, and highly encouraged, process of matching up individuals into pairs for propagation, work, and family lineage. This is commonly referred to as “The Whole Seven Floors.” Individuals must be DNA matched with at least one other ‘participant’ to be accepted into the program. The process is completed through a seven-floor interactive program where individuals have the opportunity to interact with others hoping to find a match. This program takes place at one of the many 4S compounds around the world.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
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A Weekend Getaway, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
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A weekend getaway leads an amateur sleuth and her detective husband down a treacherous trail.
With Maddie away on a high school trip, Sheridan and Brett are looking forward to some alone time – and a long-needed break from work and crime. To that end, they rent a cabin in the woods, planning to enjoy nature and hike the trails in the adjacent state park. But their plans are soon derailed by the appearance of a frantic dog, its owner nowhere in sight.
The insistent dog leads them to an injured couple and a lifeless body. Sheridan and Brett are quick to offer assistance, both to the injured and the local authorities. The hike was challenging enough, but the trail left by the killer is filled with twists and turns, bringing with it new threats and danger.
Runaway
by Lorhainne Eckhart
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“Runaway”: Love, loss, and secrets intertwine in this contemporary romance. When Laura leaves Andy, her only love, she carries a hidden truth. Months later, he’s faced with his mistakes and a surprise that could change everything. Determined to win her back, he risks it all in a quest for redemption and a second chance at love.
A tale of love, secrets, and second chances.
In Runaway, Laura leaves the man she loves without a word, taking her son and leaving behind her life with Andy Friessen, a man of wealth and power…
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
by Anne Rice
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“In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea . . . And all the world was shaken . . .”
Now Lestat, Prince of the vast tribe of the undead, finds himself at war with a strange, ancient, otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of his immortal body and spirit, and it is through this perilous and profound struggle that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times: a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Witch And The City Of Angels
by Daniel Sugar
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When an ancient manuscript is located, Lilly Parris learns of an impending apocalypse.
“The Witch and the City of Angels” is a fast-paced, brand-new take on a mephistophelian bargain.
About the author: Daniel Sugar is the author of nine novels: “Salem Burning”, “The Witch and the Guillotine”, “The Witch and the Revolution”, “The Witch and The Resistance”, “The Witch and The Merry Monarch”, “The Witch and the Physician”, “The Witch and the Round Table”, “The Witch and the City of Angels”, and “The Witch and the Volcano”.
The Western Star
by Craig Johnson
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Sheriff Walt Longmire is enjoying a celebratory beer after a weapons certification at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy when a younger sheriff confronts him with a photograph of twenty-five armed men standing in front of a Challenger steam locomotive. It takes him back to when, fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam, then-deputy Walt accompanied his mentor Lucian to the annual Wyoming Sheriff’s Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back. Armed with his trusty Colt .45 and a paperback of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the young Walt was ill-prepared for the machinations of twenty-four veteran sheriffs, let alone the cavalcade of curious characters that accompanied them.
Hue and Cry
by Patricia Wentworth
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
In six months, Marion “Mally” Lee will wed the dashing Roger Mooring and become mistress of Curston, his family estate. Determined to enjoy her freedom before she becomes a married woman, Mally impulsively accepts a position as governess to the young daughter of a shipping magnate.
But when she arrives at the Peterson townhouse in London, Mally has the strangest urge to flee. Sir George Peterson, whose wife left him for an itinerant artist, is an enigma. His sister, Lena Craddock, is nice enough, but Mally’s young charge, Barbara, hates Lena’s nephew, Paul, with a passion. When Mally is suddenly branded a thief and spy after valuable papers and a priceless diamond pendant disappear, she does the only thing she can: run away.
Who Cries for the Lost
by C. S. Harris
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Sebastian St. Cyr must confront a savage killer and save his closest friend from the hangman’s noose in this heart-pounding new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of When Blood Lies.
June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at Waterloo. Among them is Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, frustrated to find himself sidelined while recovering from a dangerous wound he recently received in Paris. When the mutilated corpse of Major Miles Sedgewick surfaces from the murky waters of the Thames, Sebastian is drawn into the investigation of a murder that threatens one of his oldest and dearest friends, Irish surgeon Paul Gibson.
Forged in Peril
by Kendra Warden
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She can’t keep running…
Ambitious paralegal Bristol Chaplin knows that achieving her dream of becoming a lawyer won’t be easy, but there’s a price that even she isn’t willing to pay. When a dark secret threatens to destroy her career, she’s forced to seek help from the man she thought she’d left behind forever.
Private security operative Cameron Forge is content to spend his life serving God and protecting the innocent. But as the woman who broke his heart brings danger straight to his doorstep, he realizes that keeping her safe might be his toughest mission yet…
The Perfect Couple
by N.J. Cracknell
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Their life looks so perfect on the surface. But the facade is beginning to crack . . .
Nevin and Gloria both have successful careers, as well as two adorable kids and a picture-book cottage by the sea. But at forty, Nevin is experiencing some discontent. He’s a successful author, but his latest plot is not for a book . . .
As Nevin sets a plan in motion that will allow him to escape his marriage, he conspires against Gloria. But he should have thought it through a little more. Because each of them have their own agenda, and everything is about to go very wrong.
The Dark Wives
by Ann Cleeves
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The man’s body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker in the park outside Rosebank, a home for troubled teens in the coastal village of Longwater. The victim is Josh, a staff member, who was due to work the previous night but never showed up.
DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate the death, with her only clue being the disappearance of one of the home’s residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spence. Vera can’t bring herself to believe that a teenager is responsible for the murder, but even she can’t dismiss the possibility.
Bitches on IVF
by Multiple Authors
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When the Universe Has Other Plans for Your Uterus
There it was—a super cute, fun, Facebook post from our friend Claire, announcing how “blessed” she was to be pregnant. We both wanted to vomit right on top of our phones. The two of us—sisters Lauren and Lacey—had been trying to get pregnant for years without success.
We are neither haters nor jealous women who can’t handle other people’s success. But after so many disappointing years and failed attempts to get pregnant, it was hard to feel like cheering. And thus began our story of IVF (in vitro fertilization), hormones, miscarriage, periods missed, egg harvesting, a shared surrogate, miracles, and—wait for it, we did, for far too long—motherhood.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
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QUESTIONS, QUARRELS, & QUANDARY
by Tonya Kappes
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USA Today Bestselling author Tonya Kappes brings you southern and quirky characters in her mystery series. Her stories are charged with humor, friendship, family and life in small southern towns.
“Questions, Quarrels, & Quandary: A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery Series Book 32” invites you back to the heart of Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest. The Cowgirl Campers, an all-women’s vintage camping club, roll into the Happy Trails Campground with their quaint campers, ready to indulge in the annual 127 yard sale and antique treasure hunting. But amidst the cozy camaraderie, a chilling event shatters the tranquility.
Cannibal Jack
by Patricia Lee Macomber
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Barbara Connolly thought she was giving her daughters a better life when she left her abusive ex-husband and moved back to her home town. But Rapture, Pennsylvania, just wasn’t the same anymore. There have been two murders right on her street, in the same house her brother disappeared in over twenty years before. Bodies are turning up everywhere, all missing flesh and with the same ragged teeth marks on the bones. Teenage girls are disappearing.
And something—or someone—is crawling around inside Barbara’s walls. As the police race to find the killer, Barbara fights to keep her daughters from becoming its next victim.
Dangerous Women
by Mark de Castrique
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In a case deciding the future of clean energy, everything hinges on how the chief justice of Supreme Court will lean. DANGEROUS WOMEN stirs up the perfect cocktail of ingenious spy-craft and political intrigue of Thomas Perry’s The Old Man brightened with the charming, uncanny energy of Killers of a Certain Age. This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law clerks leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back.
The Mercy Chair
by M. W. Craven
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You’ll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens of them. Enough for a murder . . .
He’ll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He’ll tell you how the man’s murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family.
And finally, he’ll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it . . .
Total Immunity
by Robert Ward
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Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they’ve met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who’s about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. Then, one by one, they start to die.
Knowing they could be next, Harper and Hidalgo are out to stop a man they already have behind bars. It’s an impossible situation that only gets worse when Steinbach makes a deal with Homeland Security and is freed with total immunity…
Destiny in the Ashes
by William W. Johnstone
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Ben Raines and his army won a war on two fronts, bringing law, peace and prosperity to the Southern United States of America. But SUSA’s northern northern neighbor and erstwhile enemy, the United States, is still in chaos. And when a ferocious invader attacks the soft and crippled nation, Raines has no choice but to act!
Courageous warlord Abdullah El Farrar has risen up from the humiliated regions of the oil-rich Near East—unleashing a stunning attack against the once proud northern United States. No One in the Southern United States is surprised that USA cannot defend its own land…
Knights of the Ashes
by S.D. McKittrick
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Betrayed by blood… Rose through the ashes…
Hell would have been more inviting than what Ole went through for five years. Trapped and betrayed, he was left for dead on the Ashen world. Through sheer drive and force of will, Ole overcame his trials. Uniting with a fallen angel, together they thrived. It wasn’t until year five that they found a way home.
Reunited with his lost love, and stepping onto the human realm once more. He has to remember what it’s like to deal with humans. How much has he changed? How far will he go to get revenge for the brother that betrayed him?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
A Death on Fools Lane
by Jane Suen
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Her happy holiday is about to become a dead man’s funeral.
College student Eve Sawyer is anticipating a fun winter vacation with her two friends until a dog sniffs out a body hanging from a tree in the yard of the house where they’re staying.
Implored by the dead man’s grieving mother, Eve and her friends set out to investigate the case. Was it suicide or murder? That’s the question on everyone’s lips.
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Missing Daughter
by Rick Mofina
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When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing, a suburban family’s perfect life reveals its dark secrets in this tense psychological thriller.
Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-year-old daughter’s window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed. Police investigate. Suspicions swirl. The Lane family is thrown into turmoil. Then detectives turn their sights on them. No one is ruled out. Not Karen, with her tragic past, who argued with her daughter. Not Ryan, with his violent streak. Not Maddie’s thirteen-year-old brother, Tyler, who heard voices in her room the night she vanished.
Memory Loss
by Bob Price
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Wiping an individual’s memories back to birth was intended to make Investigative journalist Vernon Bass incapable of recalling why he had been investigating a high profile business baron. It worked. Leaving him in another country to die. Didn’t.
Returned to the UK as an adult forced to relearn his native tongue should have taken longer, but Bass was older than any other victim who shared the same experience and memories stored other than in his brain helped bring back his early years. With just the last five years out of reach he agreed to be a guinea pig for a group of doctors with a machine designed for communication with an individual’s soul. The theory by doing so he might recover all lost memories.
The Last Chance Lawyer Box Set 1
by William Bernhardt
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Getting his client off death row could save his career… or make him the next victim.
In The Last Chance Lawyer, Daniel uses every trick he knows in a high-stakes trial filled with unexpected revelations and breathtaking surprises as he tried to save a young girl from a horrifying fate.
In Court of Killers, he defends rising political star Camila Perez in a gruesome quadruple homicide—which she calls a frame by powerful rivals.
In Trial by Blood, Pike’s client may be the long-lost heir to an immense estate. The problem? The young man can’t remember the last fourteen years…
Stumbling Stones
by Bonnie Suchman
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Alice Heppenheimer, born into a prosperous German Jewish family around the turn of the twentieth century, comes of age at a time of growing opportunities for women.
So, when she turns 21 years old, she convinces her strict family to allow her to attend art school, and then pursues a career in women’s fashion. Alice prospers in her career and settles into married life, but she could not anticipate a Nazi Germany, where simply being Jewish has become an existential threat. Stumbling Stones is a novel based on the true story of a woman driven to achieve at a time of persecution and hatred, and who is reluctant to leave the only home she has ever known…
Jupiter’s Bones
by Faye Kellerman
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Preeminent astrophysicist Dr. Emil Euler Ganz vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues, only to reappear fifteen years later as “Father Jupiter,” founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult the Order of the Rings of God. Now he’s dead—a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body.
Was Ganz’s death an accident? Suicide? Or did someone hasten Jupiter prematurely out of this world? These are the questions LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker is determined to answer as he enters the cult’s fortress-like compound…
OFF GRID
by J. P. Redding
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From the halls of D.C. to the remote shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, OFF GRID is a wild ride through a dystopian near future of mass surveillance.
In the wake of a global calamity, the economy collapses. The Feds respond by wielding every power of the Welfare State to control the populace. A key tool is PivPal, an indispensable smartphone used to track citizens. As civil liberties crumble, resistance is relegated to flyover country whose residents—derided as off-gridders—cling to the time-honored virtues of freedom, self-reliance, and charity. Against this backdrop, Jenny Hernandez struggles to keep her rural church community nourished and safe. Hiding from the Feds, a team of inventors, and Jenny’s ex, arrive to complete the amazing plasma drive. They bring hope, but also the watchful eye of Big Brother. With the authorities closing in, local law enforcement must choose sides.
Finding Mercy
by Karen Harper
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Return to Home Valley with book three in Karen Harper’s fan-favorite romantic suspense series
Quiet, cautious Ella Lantz has spent her entire life in the Home Valley. Tending her lavender fields, she finds calm and serenity in purple blooms, heavenly scents and a simple life. But the sudden arrival of a strange visitor heralds a host of new complications. Alex Caldwell is unlike any man Ella has ever met—in fact, he’s a Wall Street whistle-blower under witness protection…and he’s brought a world of trouble to the Lantz doorstep.