Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Double-Pointed Murder
by Ann Yost
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Red Jacket, Michigan, On the Keweenaw Peninsula
When Cricket Koski, a barmaid from the Black Fly, is stabbed to death with a double-pointed knitting needle on New Year’s Eve and deposited in the bed of Lars Teljo, it’s up to Hatti Lehtinen to exonerate her ex-brother-in-law. It’s not that Hatti, who runs a fishing-slash-knitting supply shop, is a trained detective. It’s just that Sheriff Clump considers his collar a slam dunk because an affair between Lars and Cricket three years earlier has made him vulnerable to blackmail.
But there’s a problem…
On the Line
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he’s about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant’s kitchen—and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room.
If it weren’t for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and Mateo and his family undergo a battery of genetic tests. Yet the answers that start to emerge only raise more questions.
My Father’s Secret …
by Dr. Samson Stern, Doron Rosenblatt
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“My father is the kindest, gentlest soul I know. Nothing prepared me for the secret he kept for nearly 40 years.”
Poland. There is a six-month gap in Adam Stern’s life. Six months during which he had to vanish from Warsaw, away from his wife and everything he knew, to protect them. To protect himself. To survive.
Displaced and alone, Adam kept silent about what transpired over those six months, deep in the forests between Poland and Russia. But a chance meeting with another Holocaust survivor changes everything.
Decades later, Adam finally reveals his full story to his son, Samson.
A tale of a miraculous escape across Poland, of unspeakable acts of survival, and a secret group of survivors, bent on revenge, who leave a blood-red trail across Europe.
Azabu Getaway
by Michael Pronko
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Money isn’t the only thing. It’s the deadly thing.
After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo’s wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo’s elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager.
The abducted girls are the daughters of an international couple who seemed to have it all—a large apartment in the high-end Azabu district, top schools for the children, and a life of happy affluence. Their life falls apart and they are swept up in threats and pursuits for reasons they cannot fathom.
Way of the Wolf, The Grand Game
by Tom Elliot
Rating: 4.7 #ad
New Powers and Old. A conflict millennia in the brewing. And at the center of it: one man.
Michael has escaped the clutches of the Dark, if only temporarily. Surfacing in the world above, he finds matters no less complex than down below and survival as challenging as it had been in the dungeon.
Is the harder path the one you must forge on your own? Many want Michael as their ally. Yet more want him dead, and the Dark is not done with him either. Can he find a way to navigate the treacherous waters of the Game and uncover the mysteries about himself?
Finally
by Shirley Ruedy
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Award-Winning Essential Book about Dealing with Cancer
The emotions surrounding cancer are universal—we all want to continue living. But with a cancer diagnosis, a new entity has entered many lives, and whether patient, caregiver, friend, relative, or adult or minor child, we can all use some guidance when it comes to a disease that strikes fear in us. That’s what this book is all about.
How do you deal with those feelings of shock and powerlessness when diagnosed with a life-threatening disease?
How do you live with the fear of recurrence? How do you finally—but necessarily—let go of the cancer experience?
How do you break the news to a young child that their mom or dad has cancer?
How do you support a friend/relative who has cancer—avoid the subject or even the word?
“Cancer has many complexions,” writes Shirley Ruedy, former columnist for The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “I explored them all. I went into dark places that people hesitated to talk about: I said it was okay to wish a beloved but terminally ill family member or friend would ‘go,’ to end the unremittent suffering, for them, for us, for everyone.”
After Sundown
by Linda Howard, Linda Jones
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Danger brings together two guarded hearts in a battle for survival in this irresistible story from New York Times bestselling authors Linda Howard and Linda Jones.
Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it’s the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he’s kept his distance—until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Vampires, Bones and Treacle Scones
by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Liss MacCrimmon’s Scottish Emporium is thrilled to be organizing Moosetookalok, Maine’s Halloween fundraiser. But the abandoned Chadwick mansion might be too perfect a setting for a creepy old haunted house, especially when a very real-looking body with puncture marks on the neck is added to the decorations.
Asking who kilt the deceased brings up everyone from the undead to real estate agents to horror writers. But Liss had better watch her back, because the killer is much closer than she thinks!
The Key to Rebecca
by Ken Follett
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca took readers and critics by storm when first published forty years ago. Today, it remains one of the best espionage novels ever written.
A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent is on the loose in Cairo. His mission is to send Rommel’s advancing army the secrets that will unlock the city’s doors. In all of Cairo, only two people can stop him. One is a down-on-his-luck English officer no one will listen to. The other is a vulnerable young Jewish girl. . . .
Special Agent Sophia
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sophia’s mane of silver hair gives her a look of a mystical warrior, a female not of this world. Some colleagues defend her, others are jealous… most fear her, yet everyone respects her abilities. An ace sharpshooter, she’s called on for the most difficult cases. Her uncanny ability to remain cool under duress makes her the perfect person to rescue the twins of the frantic Governor whose rejected husband intends to make her suffer.
The fact that they are whisked to Greece also works in her favor since she’s spent most of her summers in Rhodes visiting family and can show up there without anyone becoming suspicious. Problems begin when a cocky hero hits on her in the marketplace. Why her?
Prayers the Devil Answers
by Sharyn McCrumb
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The year is 1936 and society provides no safety net for newly widowed Ellie Robbins, a woman in a small mountain town who suddenly has to support her family on her own. She’s not trained to be a teacher or a nurse, the only respectable careers for a woman. So in order to care for her children, Ellie takes the only job available: that of her late husband, the sheriff.
Ellie has long proven that she can handle herself, and her role as sheriff is largely symbolic. Yet the wariness of her male subordinates and the townspeople is palpable. Soon, as dark secrets come to light, Ellie is forced to grapple with the tenuous ties she shares with a convicted killer and the small-town superstitions that have plagued her for years.
The Skin Collector
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation’s most renowned investigator and forensic detective.
Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims-or Rhyme himself.
The killer’s methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims’ flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death.
Fatal Shot
by Diane Capri, Nigel Blackwell
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release at Regular Price
His genius was not enough to keep him alive.
Road rage has gone too far. When his classic muscle car is shoved off a mountain road near Denver, the car tumbles down the mountainside and bursts into flames. The young driver dies in a fiery blaze.
Jess Kimball is assigned to cover the case for Taboo Magazine. Right from the start, Jess suspects murder. But where’s the motive?
Harmony at Work
by Susan Spero
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Harmony at Work: Keys to Tune Up Your Work Relationships is an enlightening and straightforward guide designed to integrate prior knowledge with fresh perspectives. Featuring a chorus of stories from real-life leaders, illustrations from personal experience, and practical techniques, Spero kicks tedium to the curb and drives home a crescendo of points in this lively read. And by implementing these lessons, anyone from individual contributors to senior corporate executives will soon be conductors of an efficient and productive choir.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Baking Up Trouble
by Gretchen Allen
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Family ties… Can put you in a real bind.
One thing that retiree and amateur sleuth, Loretta Barksdale loves almost as much as whipping up culinary delights with her group, the Clubhouse Cooks, is eating. So, when the group decides to do a bake sale in their peaceful Breezy Lake, FL, community, she’s all about it.
Things go awry, however, when the brother of one of her friends shows up, looking raggedy and acting oddly. He seems convinced that he’s being pursued, and winds up getting side-eyed by many community members, but Loretta believes that something else might be prompting his strange behavior.
The Carriage House
by Carla Neggers
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fun and a little hard work. That’s all Tess Haviland has in mind when Ike Grantham pays her for her graphic design work with the run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston’s North Shore.
Then Ike disappears, and Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. It’s not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—it’s the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett . . . and especially Dolly’s father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door.
The Near-Death Experience of Justin Parks
by R.A. Williams
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every year, thousands of people cheat death and come back to life. Many people have near-death experiences that offer a glimpse of Heaven. But none of these can compare to the remarkable near-death experience of Justin Parks.
The past three years haven’t been easy for Justin, causing him to lose faith in a loving, personal God. His fiancée gets killed by a drunk driver a week before their wedding. A year later, after enrolling in the police academy in a misguided effort to avenge his fiancée’s death, he mistakes a Black church pastor for an armed robber, shoots him in the chest, and nearly kills him. In the following months, he struggles with the backlash from the public outrage caused by negative media attention. And just when his life has seemingly returned to normal, a blow to the head sends him to a watery death, only for him to be revived by paramedics a few minutes later.
Mortal Dilemma
by H. Terrell Griffin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Matt Royal meets the meanest man he has ever faced
Jock Algren arrives on Longboat Key in a state of depression and hopelessness. His most recent mission for his secretive U.S. government intelligence agency has been disastrous, and his friends Matt Royal and J.D. Duncan aren’t sure they’ll be able to pull him out of his despair—then the bad guys show up and danger erupts on all fronts.
W. E. B. Griffin The Devil’s Weapons
by Peter Kirsanow
Rating: 4.1 #ad
April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential target slips away. Dr. Sebastian Kapsky had spent years working with Walter Riedel and Werner von Braun in the early days of rocket science, but as a man with a conscience he refused to continue when he saw the perversion of their work by the Nazis. That makes him the most knowledgeable person about German superweapons outside of Germany.
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
by Ray Bradbury
Rating: 4.7 #ad
An extensive collection of imaginative short stories by a National Medal of the Arts–winning author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and suspense.
Fly to Mars and explore the mysteries of the red planet. Journey through time to futures ruled by cold computers and hear the deafening roar of dinosaurs in the past. Sing the body electric and look into the mechanical eyes of androids that want to replace human life as we know it. Visit idyllic landscapes and nostalgic towns that hide sinister secrets. Available in one massive collection for the first time digitally, experience the wondrous mind of Ray Bradbury through one hundred of his all-time greatest tales. These are the stories that ask “What if?,” the stories that make the mind turn, and those that are, in the true spirit of Ray Bradbury, best read under the safety of a blanket.
Across Great Divides
by Monique Roy
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Across Great Divides is a timeless, World War II story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler comes to power in 1933, one Jewish family refuses to be destroyed and defies the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting Apartheid in South Africa.
Sixteen-year-old Eva and her twin sister, Inge, witness their lives in Berlin change before their eyes. Their best friend, Trudy, betrays them when she becomes a member of the Hitler Youth. A valuable family heirloom, a beautiful emerald and diamond pendant necklace, is confiscated by the Nazis as they harass Jewish families and businesses.
Their younger brother, Max, a member of the underground resistance, sees even greater danger ahead.
Their father, Oskar, refuses to leave his beloved Germany and believes Hitler will eventually fail.
Farewell Gift
by Zvika Zilbermintz
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Can letting go of a piece of yourself make you whole again?
When Zvika loses his teenage daughter in a tragic accident, it feels as though the only life he’s ever known is slipping through his fingers. Grieving and devastated, he takes off for India on a spiritual quest to heal his heart.
Guided by the Teacher, a spiritual guru, Zvika digs deep to find himself again in the wake of tragedy, all the while trying to hold his fragile, grieving family together.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Salvation Project
by Joe Rothstein
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Finalist for Political Thriller of The Year!–Pacific Reviews
U.S. President Isabel Aragon Tennyson (“Tenny,” as the world knows her) is running for reelection, unaware that her opponent is a Manchurian-like candidate created by a shadowy group that calls itself the Salvation Project, bent on taking control of the United States. The election will determine not just who will be president, but likely the future of humanity.
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.” – The Washington Post
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
A Conjuring of Ravens
by Azalea Ellis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan is a genius. But even geniuses need schooling.
When Siobhan stumbled into the theft of a priceless magical book, she thought her dreams of becoming the world’s most powerful sorcerer were destroyed. But then a mysterious spell changed her life forever…
Siobhan is now wearing the body of a strange man and has a new identity – Sebastien. With a new chance for a new start, she allies herself with a local gang – secretly a revolutionary party funding itself through crime. Now, she is bound by vow to repay them in magic and favors.
Dreaming Spies
by Laurie R. King
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Laurie R. King’s novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are critically acclaimed and beloved by readers for the author’s adept interplay of history and adventure. Now the intrepid duo is finally trying to take a little time for themselves—only to be swept up in a baffling case that will lead them from the idyllic panoramas of Japan to the depths of Oxford’s most revered institution.
After a lengthy case that had the couple traipsing all over India, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are on their way to California to deal with some family business that Russell has been neglecting for far too long. Along the way, they plan to break up the long voyage with a sojourn in southern Japan…
The Missing Piece
by John Lescroart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The beloved New York Times bestselling Dismas Hardy series returns with a “perfect piece of entertainment from a master storyteller” (Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author) about a relentlessly twisty murder mystery.
No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is particularly happy to see him again when he’s released after The Exoneration Initiative uncovered evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered, surrounded by the loot from his latest scam. But if Riley was innocent all along, who wanted him dead?
The Alien Chronicles Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Intelligent life on other planets: it’s the brass ring of space exploration. Do extra-terrestrial species exist? Will we ever make contact? Perhaps, have we made contact already?
In the latest addition to the Future Chronicles series of sci-fi anthologies, the answer to all of these questions is a resounding yes. From first contact to last stand, these original short stories range from quiet tales of personal connection to adrenaline-infused inter-species space conflicts. Each tale promises to present you with a different look at what intelligent alien life might be like — and how we Earthlings might respond to it.
The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
by Lynn Byk
Rating: 4.1 #ad
There’s a filigree setting for every family secret. What Elsie covets is the truth. Consequences come with being an heir of the Finch family estate, consequences no one bargained for.
This story is the story of one woman learning to grieve.
Finalist in The SOMERSET Book Awards recognizes emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). This story delivers.
Richard and Gail Finch designed their estate to carry ramifications for misplaced loyalties, but there are results neither one contemplated. When the third generation aims for a cache of treasure, someone is expendable…