Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Couch Carnival Caper
by G.G. Morris
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland’s charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair’s electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?
Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. Enter amateur sleuth, Wanda Whipple! Navigating a cast of whacky suspects with more motives than you can shake a cinnamon churro at, Wanda must get to the bottom of the Couch Carnival Capers before she ends up with her ticket permanently punched.
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(The Alphabet District Mysteries)
The Poacher’s Pocket
by Michael K Foster
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the dead come to life, anything can happen …
When fellow police officer, Shaun Quinn, goes missing, DCI Jack Mason is dragged into one of the darkest investigations in his career.
Tasked to find Quinn, the chief inspector soon comes to the chilling realisation they have underestimated the officer’s cunning. On which side of the law is Quinn working?
Fearing the officer has fallen foul to a dangerous diamond smuggling organisation, Mason and the team enter the dark criminal underbelly of Amsterdam’s notorious red light district. Haunted by failure, nothing is what it seems…
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(DCI Jack Mason Mysteries)
Save The Girls
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Why are all the best CIA spies always men? They aren’t.
Combine the spycraft of Bourne, the toughness of Reacher, and the beauty of a Charlie’s Angel and you have Jamie Austen. America’s beloved heroine.
Jamie’s latest adventure takes her to Belarus. Three hundred girls are missing. She is the only one who can save them.
The Jamie Austen Spy Thrillers must be good. They’ve been number one on Amazon in ten different countries. Award winning author, Terry Toler, tells this gripping story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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(THE JAMIE AUSTEN THRILLERS)
The Body
by Richard Ben Sapir
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In a hidden tomb in the ancient city of Jerusalem, the skeleton of a man who died two millennia ago is uncovered by Israeli archaeologist Sharon Golban and her team. The body bears the unmistakable marks of crucifixion; an inscription written in Aramaic identifies the remains as belonging to the “King of the Jews.” It is a discovery that could rock the civilized world—inciting riots, toppling governments, and destroying the very foundations of the Christian Church—if it is truly the unrisen body of Jesus Christ. Dispatched by the Vatican to investigate in secret, Jesuit priest and former US Marine Jim Folan joins Dr. Golban in a frantic race to uncover the truth. The shocking revelations that await them will test his beliefs, his will, and his sanity as never before—leading Father Folan and his beautiful, brilliant partner into forbidden temptations while casting them both into a roaring maelstrom of fanatical faith and deadly politics.
Brotherhood in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy when she investigates the disappearance of a former U.S. Senator.
Just as Dennis Mira is about to confront his cousin Edward about selling the West Village brownstone that belonged to their grandfather, he gets a shock: Edward is in front of him, bruised and bloody…and then everything goes black.
Arrow – A Generation of Vipers
by Susan Griffith, Clay Griffith
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The second original novel based on the hit Warner Bros. TV show Arrow and concluding the first crossover between The Flash and Arrow novels!
Continuing from the events of THE FLASH: THE HAUNTING OF BARRY ALLEN, team Arrow and team Flash seek to eliminate the bizarre energy that threatens to kill the Scarlet Speedster. Their quest takes them to Markovia, where they must get past an army of mercenaries and assassins to face the enigmatic Count Wallenstein.
Fred & Rose
by Howard Sounes
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The definitive account of one of Britain’s most notorious killer couples, who loved, tortured, and slayed together as husband and wife.
Updated with a new afterword from the author on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the arrests
From the outside, 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, England, looked as commonplace as the married couple who lived there. But in 1994, Fred and Rose West’s home would become infamous as a “house of horrors” when the remains of nine young women—many of them decapitated, dismembered, and showing evidence of sexual torture—were found interred under its cellar, bathroom floor, and garden.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Penguin Pool Murder
by Stuart Palmer
Rating: 4.2 #ad
For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde Withers, knocks him down with her umbrella. By the time the police and the security guards finish arguing about what to do with Chicago Lew, he has escaped, and Miss Withers has found something far more interesting: a murdered stockbroker floating in the penguin tank.
The Case of the German Doctor
by Tsuriel Sdomi
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He dedicated himself to the survival of his people. Then his family’s secret came out…
When William von Antrim decided to pursue a career as a doctor, working to help Jewish survivors recover from the horrors of World War II, he believed he was doing all in his power to help his people survive. A German refugee himself, William fled to America with his mother after she was accused of being of Jewish descent. William’s father left them with only his estate, his family name, and his legacy.
A legacy that proves to be William’s downfall.
The Portal of Chance: Complete Boxset
by J.L. Hendricks, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.6 #ad
She may be a pretty schoolgirl, but she’s more dangerous than anyone can imagine.
Mia Jennings isn’t a normal girl. She knows there’s something different about her because she keeps seeing things. That would be fine but she just wants to be normal.
But what is normal?
Trying to learn more about her powers, she fights in a tournament. Some believe she’s an easy target, a nobody, someone who will just lay down and die. They couldn’t be more mistaken.
A Certain Darkness
by Anna Lee Huber
Rating: 4.4 #ad
March 1920: Life has turned unsettlingly quiet for former British Intelligence agent Verity Kent and her husband, Sidney. But even that false calm is about to end. As threats remain, the French authorities soon request Sidney’s help with a suspect who claims to have proof of treason—shortly before she is assassinated. And Verity, too, is called to investigate a mystery . . .
The murder of a Belgian lawyer aboard a train seems at first to be a simple case of revenge. But the victim was connected to British Intelligence, and possessed papers detailing the sinking of a gold-laden German ship during the war.
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro
by K. S. Villoso
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From “a powerful new voice in fantasy” (Kameron Hurley) comes the tale of a queen who must unite her divided land, even if she’s hated by the very people she’s trying to protect.
“They called me the Bitch Queen, the she-wolf, because I murdered a man and exiled my king the night before they crowned me.”
Born under the crumbling towers of her kingdom, Queen Talyien was the shining jewel and legacy of the bloody War of the Wolves. It nearly tore her nation apart. But her arranged marriage to the son of a rival clan heralds peace.
The Bones Will Speak
by Carrie Stuart Parks
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A killer with a penchant for torture has taken notice of forensic expert Gwen Marcey . . . and her daughter.
When Gwen Marcey’s dog comes home with a human skull and then leads her to a cabin in the woods near her Montana home, she realizes there’s a serial killer in her community. And when she finds a tortured young girl clinging to life on the cabin floor, she knows this killer is a lunatic.
Yet what unsettles Gwen most is that the victim looks uncannily like her daughter.
Scorpion Strike
by John J. Nance
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A scientist charged by Saddam Hussein with pioneering a horrific breakthrough in biological warfare, Shakir Abbas defects at the American embassy to warn the world of the new weapon. America’s worst nightmare has come true – and now US forces must scramble to put together a plan to destroy the weapon of mass destruction.
When the operation goes awry in Saudi Arabia, Col. Will Westerman commandeers a C-141 transport to get the Special Forces team into Iraq. With the help of air force buddy Col…
A Going Concern
by Catherine Aird
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The age-old German-chasing-the-Jew tale takes a different turn in this book as the conflicts of World War II are seen through the eyes of a Nazi’s young adolescent son.
To Alfonso, it’s confusing that while he gets in trouble for bullying at school, his father then turns around and becomes a hero for shooting a group of Jews. While General Adelric sits in the seat of respect, he sends his son to a boys’ boarding school that specializes in teaching morals. Knowing nothing besides walking in his father’s footsteps, Alfonso continues to be the school bully and gets into more trouble. Then one day, he meets someone who has many things he lacks-confidence, a joy in life, faith, and an incredible voice…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cold Cutting Murder
by Emma Ainsley
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beauty may be skin deep… But murder is downright ugly.
Catering Manager and amateur sleuth, Carolina Hart, has her work cut out for her when she’s hired to cater a beauty pageant. Accustomed to providing buffet style meals, she’s going to have to get creative when the requested menu consists of charcuterie-type fare that includes fresh selections of finger foods.
Her stress level is also kicked up a notch when she discovers that a rival caterer happens to be one of the pageant’s judges. Determined to rise above it all, Carolina vows to do her best work.
The Camp
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.1 #ad
There are always stories told around the fire at summer camp—tall tales about gruesome murders and unhinged killers, concocted to scare new arrivals and lend an extra jolt of excitement to those hormone-charged nights. At Camp Luft-Shawk, nicknamed Camp Love Shack, there are stories about a creeping fog that brings death with it. But here, they’re not just campfire tales. Here, the stories are real.
Twenty years ago, a girl’s body was found on a ledge above the lake, arms crossed over her heart. Some said it was part of a suicide pact, connected to the nearby Haven Commune…
Zombie Fungus
by Bryan Dean
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Abe thought he was ready for this. He’d watched the movies, read the books, and prepared accordingly. But when the monsters arrived, he realized Hollywood didn’t get all the facts right. Some of these zombies are not your father’s zombies — not even close.
Maybe it’s because the source isn’t a virus, but a fungus? Or that it was synthesized in a laboratory? But who would attempt something so dastardly? How many lives will be lost when humans manipulate what they should have left alone?
But the real question, the one the world will desperately seek to answer: Who do you turn to when monsters are eating you alive? Well, unfortunately for you, it’s Abe and he really doesn’t care what your name is…
Witch of the Federation Boxed Set Two
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Telorans have arrived, and people in the Federation are going to die.
Vishlog is working to understand the Morgana group, and just what he has “volunteered” to be part of.
Hopefully, he won’t die before he learns.
The Witch of the Federation has matured, and she has learned how to be a bit more aggressive. She chooses to use this new strength…to go on a date.
Join her on the second half of her adventures with this 8-book boxed set!
Fear Thy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.2 #ad
At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. She’s drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right place to settle down, she’ll know. And when she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it.
The small, close-knit island community seems to have everything Alison needs. On a hunch, she contacts the island’s only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. At first, home is everything she hoped it would be.
New Kingdom
by Mark Chadbourn
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An Ancient Egyptian novel from the master of adventure fiction and global number 1 bestselling author, Wilbur Smith.
In the heart of Egypt. Under the watchful eye of the gods. A new power is rising
In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful façades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui’s stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret, and Hui’s own brother Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Hui’s father, condemning Hui and seizing power in the city.
Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew—an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away.
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.