Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Dedication to Murder
by Lauren Elliott
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Wedding bells are about to ring again in Greyborne Harbor, and as Addie slips into her white dress her thoughts are focused on a bright future with Dr. Simon Emerson. But a discovery in her attic leads her to startling revelations about the past. As the owner of Beyond the Page Books and Curios and a lifelong bibliophile, Addie is delighted to find a rare collection of classic children’s books gathering dust in a secret room beneath the rafters, including a first edition of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. To her surprise, a handwritten inscription on the title page provides a clue to unraveling a complex mystery in Addie’s family . . .
Tech Hunter
by Allan Boroughs
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Seizes the reader from the very first page” – MARK DAWSON
“All too plausible” – DAILY EXPRESS
Homecomings can be dangerous affairs.
It’s been ten years since India Bentley left the drowned city of London, now she’s back to settle a score. But the North London shores have become a dangerous place, where flesh-eating ‘ghost men’ haunt the dark places and slaver gangs carry off the unwary and India’s worst fears are realised when her own sister is taken in a Southside raid. And as if that wasn’t enough – the rains have returned.
And Four to Go
by Rex Stout
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. When it comes to sleuthing out a clever solution, only Nero Wolfe has a clue.
The Lion
by Nelson DeMille
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion’s Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as “The Lion.” Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the US only to unleash the most horrific reign of terrorism ever to occur on American soil. While Corey and his partner, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, chased him across the country, Khalil methodically eliminated his victims one by one and then disappeared without a trace.
OCELLICON
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
OCELLICON is a military science fiction story with elements of legal/detective/mystery/feminist/noir sci-fi. Earth barely survived nuclear battles until the militaries of the world took over from authoritarians. But rebellion was agitating from within. Prosecutor Major Annalisa Farrell, Military Academy honors graduate, war hero, wounded warrior, and child abuse survivor fought to champion justice. An unexpected adversary turned out to be Judge Bennett McCrae, the “Judge Prince.” In his courtroom, the Military, and the general population, he was as popular as Annalisa was hated. Before appearing before Judge McCrae, Annalisa Farrell fought in numerous conflicts, was special ops, and had missions in space where she worked side by side with aliens.
A Field of Poppies
by Sharon Sala
Rating: 4.6 #ad
First the hospital calls to tell Poppy Sadler that her mother’s battle with cancer is finally over. Then the police appear on her doorstep, informing her that her father’s murdered body has just been pulled from the river. In five minutes, both of Poppy’s parents are dead and her whole world spins out of control . . .
Across the river, Justin Caulfield has a crisis of his own. A deadly disease is stealing his daughter’s life and not even his vast fortune can save her. Then a person he’s always trusted names a price he never knew he owed. Betrayed and running out of time, Justin learns that twenty years of lies may have just cost him his soul . . .
How To Become Your Best Self – The Workbook
by Ashry Publications
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Take powerful practical steps towards a better you!
What if through guided reflection you can find out your true potential, reach your goals, and live a more fulfilling life?
This fantastic book helps guide you in a very methodical way to becoming a more well-rounded and balanced version of yourself.
Whether you are discovering your expanded abilities for the first time, re-visiting areas of your life you’ve neglected or looking for a new way to do monthly journaling, this easy-to-follow workbook will help you create weekly and monthly habits to create a more balanced you.
The best way out of your comfort zone is to gradually expand it and find your optimal level of “good stress.” Increased performance is just one of the many reasons stepping out of your comfort zone is important.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on the Run
by Sonia Parin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lighthearted 1920s Cozy Mystery. Evie, the Countess of Woodridge, has been kidnapped? A telegram arrives at Halton House, sending the dowagers and Toodles on a mad race to rescue Evie from the clutches of an impostor.
Unaware of the chaos and panic reigning at Halton House, Evie finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and dealing with Tom Winchester’s odd behavior. He is keeping secrets and every time she tries to get answers from him, he manages to change the subject or worse… something else happens.
The Dark Wind
by Tony Hillerman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The corpse had been “scalped,” its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee’s fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man’s greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.
Born of Empire
by Sally Ann Melia
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Out of the devastation and smoke, the Battle Borgs of Dome were advancing towards him!
“I had a nightmare, mum… I really don’t want to go!” “It was cold. I was afraid. I could not get out.”
“It was only a dream. You have to go.” How long can a mother regret the last words to her son?
Teodor of Earth is taken, he falls into the hands of the ruthless yet charismatic Chart Segat, a populist politician, he is also head of the crack space warriors: the Dome Militant.
Teodor’s mother, Regent Sayginn of Freyne 2 will use every resource at her disposal: military might, security surveillance, battle cyborgs and insider intelligence to find her son. She will call on the Valvanchi, the telepathic shapeshifters alien to free him. The only question is can they get to the prince in time?
The Poison Tree
by Alan Prendergast
Rating: 4.0 #ad
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard’s seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle—just in case her brother missed.
Hours later the Jahnke kids were behind bars. Days later they made headlines. So did the truth about the house of horrors on Cowpoke Road.
Curious Minds
by Janet Evanovich, Phoef Sutton
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry.
Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he’d probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is given her first assignment: babysitting Emerson Knight.
Night Will Find You
by Julia Heaberlin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Vivvy Bouchet was only ten when she saved a boy’s life by making an impossible prediction. She doesn’t want to explain it. A wunderkind scientist, she just wants to be left in peace to scan the desert Texas sky with her telescopes in one of the darkest places on earth. But when the boy she saved, now a Fort Worth cop, begs for her help on a cold case, she can’t turn him down.
In the past decade, Lizzie Solomon and the Victorian mansion where she disappeared have taken on almost mythic status. Conspiracy theorists feed the frenzy that Lizzie is still buried in the crumbling walls while her mother, who sits in prison convicted of killing her, loudly proclaims her innocence.
A Cosmology of Monsters
by Shaun Hamill
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them – and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.
His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe – too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.
And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won’t admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The OC
by D. P. Lyle
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Thrill-a-minute crime fiction—infused with wry humor
Restaurant owner and former professional baseball player Jake Longly is hoping for a few weeks of fun with Nicole Jamison in the warm Orange County, CA sun—The OC, baby. After that, they’ll be on their way to LA for the filming of Nicole’s sure-to-be-a-hit screenplay.
On arrival, they discover that Nicole’s friend Megan Weatherly, a local TV reporter, has picked up an anonymous stalker. Megan downplays any real danger, but her new intern Abby, as well as Jake and Nicole, don’t agree.
The Warrior Omnibus #1: Books 1-6
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
It’s been so long, Warrior… I can feel you… Is Idina Moorfield going crazy or has an ancient magic found its source?
A new Warrior is about to find out the true roots of the Moorfield name. Nothing will ever be the same.
Her calling is the one thing they are the most against. She joins the military just like Uncle Rick. The other family outcast.
W is for Wasted
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The first victim is a local PI of suspect reputation, gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. The second is a John Doe found on the beach six weeks later with a slip of paper with private detective Kinsey Millhone’s name and number in his pocket.
Two seemingly unrelated deaths: one man murdered, the other apparently dead of natural causes.
Weapons of Opportunity
by Dale Brown, Patrick Larkin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fresh off his success in the New York Times bestselling Countdown to Midnight, Nick Flynn finds himself once again facing a vicious enemy—one determined to destroy the United States.
When Nick Flynn left the US Air Force to join the Quartet Directorate, he did so with the full knowledge that no one could ever know. This covert private force—called Four by its members—promised him the chance to lead his own missions and make his own decisions, though the risks are high. When a former senior CIA executive goes dark, Flynn and his team—including the daring Laura Van Horn—are ready to step in. What begins as a quiet check on his home turns into a firefight against a familiar enemy who is more dangerous than ever.
Dan “Three Hands” Roberts
by William Black
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Solitary and legendary shooter Dan “Three Hands” Roberts learns about a tragedy on a wanted poster – the Barber Boys are wanted for the deaths of two men and a house burned to ashes.
The victims? Dan’s father and brother. It was a twisted revenge served cold by the Barber Boys after Dan killed Wes Barber, one of the gang members, in a fair duel.
But Dan’s mother and sister have managed to flee, and it is up to Dan to protect his surviving kin.
The Legend of the Crossley Stag
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The year is 1939, and the Second World War has broken out. After her father goes off to fight, young Katie is left living with her mother in a rundown pub on the outskirts of Crowford. Terrified that her father won’t come back, Katie tries to hide from reality by venturing into the nearby forest.
Katie soon discovers that something dangerous is lurking in the forest. Meanwhile, strange noises ring out in the pub at night, hinting at another mysterious presence. Katie and her mother both notice the noises, but they react in very different ways. And as the war continues, they each have to find ways of coping. But is another dark force hiding in the pub, waiting for its chance to strike?
A Going Concern
by Catherine Aird
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Hypnosis Is for Hacks
by Tamara Berry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Eleanor Wilde has traded a career as a sham medium for a (relatively) respectable life in a small English town, providing the locals with herbal remedies and elixirs. But on a trip to the seaside town of Brighton, her past comes calling—and so does a killer . . .
Though Eleanor is delighted that her brother, Liam, is visiting her in England, she must reluctantly agree that her quiet village lacks something when it comes to sightseeing—namely: sights. True, there’s nearby Castle Hartford, belonging to the family of Ellie’s boyfriend, Nicholas. But even Nicholas’s mother is eager to ditch sleepy, sweltering Sussex for a vacation in Brighton, taking Ellie and a relieved Liam with her. Yet hopes of a breezy seaside holiday quickly turn stormy, in every sense . . .
Beauty and the Scalpel
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When young, New York plastic surgeon, Jack Donahue’s reputation is destroyed, he changes his name and makes a fresh start in Sydney.
Blessed with unique surgical skills and driven by greed and lust, it’s not long before Donahue is a multimillionaire, but he wants more – much more.
Handsome, narcissistic and cruel, when Donahue sees the opportunity to become super-wealthy, he seizes it. Will greed be his downfall?
Dark Water Rising
by Sharon Sala
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sam and Haley Quaid buried their ten-year-old son and then ended their marriage, all in one week. It wasn’t a volatile divorce, but three years later, except for trading Christmas cards, Sam and Haley have completely lost touch . . . until a dramatic weather report sets their paths on a collision course once more.
Tropical Storm Gladys is heading straight toward coastal Texas, and locals are anxious as they prepare for potential devastation. Haley, a Realtor, has an appointment to show a property and is determined to keep it, but a hurricane isn’t the only looming danger: news reports talk of two prisoners who’ve escaped from a nearby penitentiary only a few miles from the house Haley’s headed for.
Chronicles of a Supernatural Bounty Hunter: Books 1-4
by Alex Fox
Rating: 5.0 #ad
I hunt bad guys. I don’t work for them. Ready for a fast, fun urban fantasy adventure with a snarky heroine who doesn’t pull punches? This one’s for you.
My talent for tracking has made me a damn good bounty hunter for the past decade, but it’s also gotten me solidly on the sh*t list of some seriously heavy hitters. When a dangerous con artist escapes to Louisiana, I find myself face-to-face with his boss―the Vampire Master of New Orleans.
It’s one hell of a leap to go from bail bonds and bounties to dragging supernaturals back to Texas on the back of a chain, but I’m up for it. My back may be against the wall, but I’m the kind of girl who comes out swinging.
The Ghostway
by Tony Hillerman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before he shows the old Navajo a photo of the man he seeks.
This is all Tribal Policeman Jim Chee needs to set him off on an odyssey that moves from a trapped ghost in an Indian hogan to the seedy underbelly of L.A. to an ancient healing ceremony where death is the cure, and into the dark heart of murder and revenge.
999: New Stories Of Horror And Suspense
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology
“One of the best anthologies of horror and suspense of all time.”—Rocky Mountain News
From award-winning author and “master anthologist”* Al Sarrantonio, 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense is a specially curated collection of evocative fiction that probes the depth of human fears and frailties. From otherworldly entities stalking prey to psychological terrors borne of trauma, these stories exemplify the limitless possibilities inherent in the genre, revealing that darkness can be found anywhere the imagination dares to look for it.
Her Brand of Justice
by B.J. Daniels
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Exploring her hidden past. May rob her of her future
Ansley Brookshire’s search for her birth mother takes her from the gated estate where she grew up to Lonesome, Montana. This is where she meets Buck Crawford. Determined to help, the gorgeous rancher introduces her to Colt Brothers Investigations. But someone wants the secrets surrounding her adoption to stay buried—and they’ll do anything to keep her from uncovering the truth…
The Blacksmith Queen
by G.A. Aiken
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a prophecy brings war to the Hill Lands, Keeley Smythe must join forces with a clan of mountain warriors in a thrilling new fantasy romance series from New York Times bestselling author G.A. Aiken.
The Old King Is Dead
With the demise of the Old King, there’s a prophecy that a queen will ascend to the throne of the Hill Lands. Bad news for the king’s sons, who are prepared to defend their birthright against all comers.