Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Bookstore
by Dianne Harman
Rating: 4.7
A woman’s dream, a warning, a murder, but it’s the wrong person. When a mistaken identity murder happens at her sister’s bookstore in Cottonwood Springs, Brigid has no choice. She has to find the person who intended to murder her sister.
Not everyone liked her sister, Fiona. Several people could have done it including the competing bookstore owner, the religious fanatic, the psychic, and her landlady. Now all Brigid has to do is figure out if it was one of them or just a random event.
Fire and Thorn
by Mary Vee
Rating: 5.0
The day the king of Aerlis heroically dies and his lovely queen is viciously carried off to the dark north, dragons invade the land. Crops and homes near the border burn to the ground. Prince Gilbert must give up what he wants most to save his father’s kingdom and himself.
Far away lies the answer. Something unseen. To save the kingdom he must go on a quest to bring the unseen back. A quest filled with danger. There seems an easier solution in the vast north. One that offers great wealth and power. Time is short. One choice will save his kingdom. The other will silence him and his people – forever.
Setback
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 5.0
Sometimes, what we hunt can capture us… He wants her dead. She knows she should be afraid. After all, he’s a contract hit-man. But someone has to stop his killing spree. An old locket with a painful history, connects their minds. She is aware of his plans far more than he is aware of her presence inside his head. However, the roles can reverse at any time. The question is: Can she stop him, even with the help of a CIA operative, especially when the hit-man is hell-bent on completing his latest mission.
Dr. Amelia Rimgold is a young research scientist about to testify in a generic drug fraud. She’s descended from a Salem resident hung as a witch, and believes her locket is a protective amulet…
CROOKED MOON
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.0
Crooked Moon, first and foremost, is a human drama, an emotional journey into the lives of two women and those closest to them. As children, Frankie Cavalese and Callie Mason were the very best of friends, growing up together behind opposite walls of a row home in a blue-collar neighborhood of Philadelphia called Rainytown. The friendship they shared was special – the kind that storybook heroines had – and neither ever considered the possibility of it not lasting forever. But after high school, life interfered and circumstances separated them as they each went on to live in drastically different worlds.
The Siege Winter
by Ariana Franklin, Samantha Norman
Rating: 4.0
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1141. England is engulfed in war as King Stephen and his cousin, the Empress Matilda, vie for the crown. In this dangerous world, not even Emma, an eleven-year-old peasant, is safe. A depraved monk obsessed with redheads kidnaps the ginger-haired girl from her village and leaves her for dead. When an archer for hire named Gwyl finds her, she has no memory of her previous life. Unable to abandon her, Gwyl takes the girl with him, dressing her as a boy, giving her a new name—Penda—and teaching her to use a bow. But Gwyn knows that the man who hurt Penda roams free, and that a scrap of evidence she possesses could be very valuable.
The Horror of Briarwych Church
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4
Seventy years ago, Briarwych Church was sealed for the second time. The great wooden door has remained shut and locked ever since. But now, in the present day, evil is stirring once more.
Sent to live with new foster parents in Briarwych, Kerry and Mark soon set about exploring the village. When they’re warned to stay away from the church, they naturally decide to go and take a closer look. And when the long-sealed door mysteriously swings open, they’re drawn inside to meet a terrible fate.
Lord Corsair
by Sydney Jane Baily
Rating: 4.7
A treacherous world of pistols, plunder, and passion. Miss Beryl Angsley, relishing a final few months of freedom before marriage, accompanies her father across the globe on a mission of diplomacy only to find herself kidnapped by Chinese pirates in the South China Sea.
British privateer, Philip Carruthers, on a secret undertaking for Queen Victoria, has at last found the treasure he’s sought for two years. Unfortunately, he also finds a captive Englishwoman.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Nipped in the Bud
by Sheila Connolly
Rating: 3.9
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Winter still has a firm stranglehold on the small town of Granford, and newly married orchard owner Meg Chapin is restless to begin her spring pruning and planting, while Seth busies himself with a new project of his own. But their relative peace is shattered when a gunshot breaks the winter silence and they discover the body of a dead woman on their land. What’s just as troubling is that the state police have hushed up the murder and are warning Meg not to investigate.
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(An Orchard Cozy Mysteries)
Mockingbird
by Walter Tevis
Rating: 4.6
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In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. People wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, through a barren landscape with no children, no art, and where reading is forbidden. From this bleak existence, a tragic love triangle springs forth. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, runs the world, but his only wish is to die…
Die Trying
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.3
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Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her.
Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now he has to save them both–from the inside out–or die trying…
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Boxed Set
by Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0
Olivia Beaufont likes fixing things and keeping to herself. She’s simple like that–but her life is about to drastically change. Liv is a rebel with royal blood who abdicated her birthright. A string of murders changes everything and the House of Seven asks her to take on a role as a Warrior, one of seven positions revered for protecting magic.
This boxset includes: The Rebellious Sister, The Uncooperative Warrior, The Defiant Magician, The Triumphant Daughter. CLICK above to read the full descriptions!
Understanding Pain is Your Guide to Healing
by Hayuta Epstein
Rating: 4.7
Our body speaks to us through pain, as well as other sensations and bodily experiences. Each pain has a reason and a purpose: to signal and communicate to us what needs attention and healing.
Understanding Pain is Your Guide to Healing teaches the reader to listen to the body’s signals and understand the spiritual cause for pain, in order to facilitate personal growth and development. This book offers an alternative perspective to the conventional perception of pain, teaching that pain can be a valuable resource for self-understanding and spiritual growth.
Don’t Scream
by Wendy Corsi Staub
Rating: 4.2
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Don’t Tell A Soul… In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn’t die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods–ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . .
Don’t Think About The Past… Now, ten years later, their secret is coming back to haunt them as each receives a card in the mail from Rachel: “Happy Birthday to Me. xoxo R.” It’s clear that someone knows what happened that night. Someone is stalking them and sending mysterious, chilling gifts that only they can understand–deadly warnings of what is to come. For the sins of the past have come back with a vengeance, and a killer will see that they all pay in blood… And Whatever You Do–Don’t Scream…
After Hurricane Nina, Rand’s Resolution
by Tamara Ferguson
Rating: 4.7
On November 30, 2016, Hurricane Nina hit Bali, Indonesia. Eight Strangers. Eight Unique Stories. All Stand-alone Novels. This is Rand’s Story.
One summer, at a time when both were vulnerable as teenagers, Ciara Ryan and Randall Mathew McAllister III crossed paths in Crystal Rock, Wisconsin, supporting each other through some traumatic family issues. Now an Air Force Lieutenant and pilot, Ciara is vacationing in Bali with two of her friends when she runs into none other than Rand McAllister, who’s residing on Bali, seemingly living the life of luxury because of a family inheritance…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.6
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The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie.
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery.
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(Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Chausiku
by Pamela E. Cash
Rating: 4.0
There are six secret clans across the world–Africa (Sakombi clan), Europe (Spencer clan), Asia (Qiáo clan), South America (Amaru clan), North America (Natosapi clan) and Australia (Gale clan). Each clan possesses unique supernatural powers. On her 16th birthday Chassie inherits powerful abilities and discovers she’s a descendant of the Sakombi clan. She’s also in extreme danger.
John is ready to teach her how to fight but there isn’t much time. She must deal with her harsh new reality fast if she wants to stay alive…because her mother’s killer is looking for her.
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(Chausiku Mysteries)
Crucible
by James Rollins
Rating: 4.6
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Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend’s wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak—until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to “unlock” her mind long enough to ask a few questions.
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(Sigma Force Mysteries)
The Sound of Broken Glass
by Deborah Crombie
Rating: 4.4
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie’s The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that blends a murder from the past with a powerful danger in the present.
When Detective Inspector James joins forces with Detective Inspector Melody Talbot to solve the murder of an esteemed barrister, their investigation leads them to realize that nothing is what it seems—with the crime they’re investigating and their own lives.
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(Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Mysteries)
Dragon’s First Shift
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.8
I never wanted a love story. True love doesn’t exist for a person like me, or the creature that lurks within.
Funny isn’t it, how blind people can be. Dazzled by the fancy cars and pretty girls. Tailored suits and slick haircuts. Almost all of them they fail to see the lie. Smell the stinking truth right under their up-turned noses.
I’ll soon turn twenty-five, but my life has been one big, dangerous deception. I was born into a destiny I never chose, and a war I never asked for. But the biggest secret of all is running through my veins, hidden deep within my bones. A slumbering beast, that’s only now beginning to awaken.
Song of the Lion
by Anne Hillerman
Rating: 4.5
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A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter and Rock with Wings.
When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.
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(A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Mysteries)
The Dead Room
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.2
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A year ago, archaeologist Leslie MacIntyre barely survived the explosion that took the life of her fiancé, Matt Connolly. In the long months since, she’s slowly come to terms not only with her loss but with her unsettling new ability to communicate with ghosts, a dubious Ôgift’ received in the wake of her own brush with death.
Now she’s returned to lower Manhattan’s historic Hastings House, site of the explosion, to conquer her fears and investigate a newly discovered burial ground…
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(Harrison Investigation)
The Doll House
by Phoebe Morgan
Rating: 4.2
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You never know who’s watching… Corinne’s life might look perfect on the outside, but after three failed IVF attempts it’s her last chance to have a baby. And when she finds a tiny part of a doll house outside her flat, it feels as if it’s a sign.
But as more pieces begin to turn up, Corinne realises that they are far too familiar. Someone knows about the miniature rocking horse and the little doll with its red velvet dress. Someone has been inside her house…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Mother’s Day, Muffins, and Murder
by Sara Rosett
Rating: 4.4
As a regular volunteer at North Dawkins Elementary, Ellie would never miss the annual Mother’s Day breakfast – even if she has to tolerate the likes of Gabrielle Matheson. The rivals aren’t exactly sworn enemies, though Ellie still thinks there’s only room for one professional organizer in their small Georgia town. But when Gabrielle reports finding a dead body inside the supply closet, the two women form an alliance to teach a killer a lesson in justice . . .
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(An Ellie Avery Mysteries)
Full Wolf Moon
by Lincoln Child
Rating: 4.1
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Logan has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now.
Logan travels to an isolated writers’ retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book when the remote community is rocked by the grisly discovery of a dead hiker on Desolation Mountain. The body has been severely mauled, but the unusual savagery of the bite and claw marks call into question the initial suspicions of a wild bear attack.
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(Jeremy Logan Mysteries)
Protected by the Damned Boxed Set
by Michael Todd, Micheal Anderle, Laurie Starkey
Rating: 5.0
Katie Maddison never wanted to learn how to kick a demon’s ass, all she was doing was helping a fellow university student with his Chem homework. She just trusted people too much. Now, she will be the new weapon in a war she had no idea existed with warriors wielding both weapons and supernatural abilities.
Demon Hunters, Demon Fighters … Known as The Damned. People possessed by Demons, but still remaining in control of their bodies. One of the most powerful Demon’s in Hell can’t defeat his sister, so he sets her up to be sacrificed and killed. The only problem? The human she possesses retained her sanity and together they might be a catalyst to change the future of the war.
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.4
The paperweight – a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind?
Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. Her father’s gift spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
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(The Dumont Chronicles)
I Hear the Sirens in the Street
by Adrian McKinty
Rating: 4.4
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A Barry Award winner and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award! A torso in a suitcase looks like an impossible case. But Sean Duffy isn’t easily deterred, especially when his floundering love life leaves him in need of distraction. So, with Detective Constables McCrabban and McBride, he goes to work identifying the victim. The torso turns out to be all that’s left of an American tourist who once served in the US military. What was he doing in Northern Ireland in the midst of the 1982 Troubles?
The Famous Union
by Michael Meyer
Rating: 3.8
Adult humorous fiction. Famous Union College is a slow moving train wreck, a place where what is what is not. Two hapless heroes. An exhibitionist secretary. Bumbling administrators. A paranoid football coach. Conniving coeds. A sex obsessed football player. Who knows what will happen next…
“The characters are all interesting and well developed – and many would be great study cases for a psych major.” – HAMPTON REVIEWS
No Safe Place
by H. L. Wegley
Rating: 4.6
How much would you sacrifice to regain your honor? After ex-football star, Matt Mathison, allows a career-ending injury to send him to the far country, the prodigal wants to come home and regain his honor. But Matt returns with an assassin on his trail. When he encounters a young woman with secrets, a woman he is drawn to and who seems to need him, he must choose between helping her or endangering her.
Miranda (Randi) Richards, a young meteorologist, takes a job in a remote area near the Olympic National Park to nurse her wounds after her parents brutally disowned her when she converted to Christianity at college. When Randi, a world-class, middle-distance runner literally runs into Matt on a park trail, she believes she’s found someone who can help heal her heart. But she learns Matt has secrets that threaten both her heart and her life.
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(Witness Protection)
Fair Trade For Love
by Weston Parker
Rating: 4.6
He’s willing to trade his daughter. Good. She’s exactly what I want in my life. I come from old money and lots of it. And my business is in need of some numbers help.
The thief’s beautiful daughter fits the bill beautifully. But the innocent girl does far more than help me get the business in line. She wakes me up at night, has me pacing the floor, and drowns me in the desire to focus on so much more than work. Ive not loved or lusted in a long time, but there’s something about her. Whether I want her to or not, she’s causing my blood to burn…
Manhattan Cinderella
by Kate O’Keeffe
Rating: 4.4
22-year-old New Yorker Gabriella Davis aspires to be pop music’s next big thing. Desperate to protect her kid sister, she’s got to succeed. But first, she needs to get away from her narcissistic stepmother who has her working her butt off as assistant to her band.
Super-hot singer Cole Grant is a country boy at heart, so when he leaves his native Tennessee for New York, he’s about as comfortable as a deer on ice. He’s determined to make the most of this chance of a lifetime, but with the explosive family secret Cole needs to keep, this is one opportunity that might just blow up in his face…