Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
PLOTTED IN CORNWALL
by JANIE BOLITHO
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Rose Trevelyan is making quite a name for herself as an artist. After the success of her solo exhibition, she is commissioned to paint the portraits of two sisters in a remote farmhouse on Bodmin Moor.
But there’s something curious about the sisters . . .
With no partners or children between them, the sisters are on their own. They want their portraits painted ‘just for fun’, as there will be no one left to remember them when they’re gone.
The Persuasion
by Iris Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy Seal Joe Quinn are about to give Seth Caleb their trust for the most important duty of his life: keeping their daughter, Jane, safe at any cost. Her talent as an artist has caught the attention of a brilliant psychopath with a violent past.
Seth, Jane’s strongest ally and fiercest protector, is determined to keep her out of danger, but that becomes nearly impossible when Jane is forced to take matters into her own hands and confronts the madman who wants her for himself . . . and wants Seth Caleb dead.
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shelby McKinney thought she had it all…a great marriage, three wonderful children and a beautiful house in Summerville, South Carolina. On the surface, everything appeared near-perfect until her beloved grandfather, Luther Mellon, died and purposely left her out of his will in order to get her full, undivided attention.
Everything quickly crumbles, rendering Shelby completely inconsolable, until she mysteriously hears from her late-grandfather, Luther Mellon, from the grave. In this hand-written letter, he informs his granddaughter that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
From the Shadows
by James R. Benn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Southern France, 1944: Ex-Boston cop and wartime military investigator Billy Boyle is given a dangerous assignment—to extract a British Special Operations Executive officer from Crete and take him to France to serve on a security detail to identify fascist sympathizers. The mission gets even more complicated when Billy realizes how many enemies the officer he must protect has accrued. In the aftermath of the failed, and costly, Vercors uprising, tensions among Resistance groups are running high, and the mission turns far deadlier than expected.
The Lying Room
by Nicci French
Rating: 4.1 #ad
One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer.
In this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence.
It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel.
Queen’s Bounty
by Fiona Buckley
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I Ursula helped foil a few months previously.
Ursula dismisses the countess’s letter as idle threats, but then a series of strange events rocks Ursula’s household—and Ursula herself is accused of witchcraft. Could Anne Percy really be orchestrating a plot against Ursula from her exile in the Netherlands? And, if so, how can Ursula prove it before she is hanged as a witch?
Grave Descend
by Michael Crichton
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it.
For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it’s his last chance at a big payday. But the more he learns about the wreck, the more questions he uncovers—because none of the survivors are telling the same story. How did the ship really sink? What was its cargo? And why is this whole project starting to feel like a suicide mission?
Song of the Pearl and Oyster
by Patty Duffy
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nora is a surprise guest at her mother’s 75th birthday party, and she’s not sure her mother will be happy about it. Nora was sent away from home when she was six years old. Song of the Pearl and Oyster is based on real events following three generations of women. Beginning in 1938 with a Japanese pearl diver and a dream, the narrative charts a path to America’s internment camps, post-war change, and the journey of a lonely, young girl. When young Nora overhears her grandmother speaking bitterly about her Japanese father in California, she makes a decision. She’ll leave the woman’s sharp-tongued abuse and run away to find him with only their shared last name to guide her. Nora dreams that her violin will help her find a place in a culture that has no place for her.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cthulhu Casebooks
by James Lovegrove
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have battled R’lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R’lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.
Red Vengeance
by Uzi Eilam
Rating: 4.5 #ad
If you wish for peace… Be ready for vengeance.
Gideon Ben-Ari is officially retired, trading the exciting life of global counterterrorism for a career as an international security expert. He is confident that the fate of Israel and the free world is safe in the hands of his successors – his innovative daughter Noam, her genius husband Dan, and their common friend “Erik” – son of Iranian doctor Nimer al-Khaldi, Gideon’s nemesis-turned-collaborator.
But in a world like Gideon’s, nothing lasts forever – especially peace.
House
by Frank Peretti
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Sinner.
Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti—two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers—have joined forces for the first time with this non-stop thrill ride. Enter House—where you’ll find yourself thrown into a killer’s deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose . . . and the only way out is in.
One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn.
The Long Weekend
by Gilly Macmillan
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need.
The women arrive for a girls’ night ahead of their husbands. There’s ex-Army Jayne, hardened and serious, but also damaged. Ruth, the driven doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily, just wed and insecure, the newest addition of this tight-knit band. Missing this year is Edie, who was the glue holding them together, until her husband died suddenly.
Madman in the Woods
by Jamie Gehring
Rating: 4.6 #ad
One woman’s haunting sixteen-year account of her youth when she and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was “just the odd hermit.” In fact, he was much more—Ted eluded the FBI for seventeen years while mailing explosives to strangers, earning the infamous title of Unabomber.
Murder Under a Red Moon
by Harini Nagendra
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When new bride Kaveri Murthy reluctantly agrees to investigate a minor crime to please her domineering mother-in-law – during the blood moon eclipse, no less – she doesn’t expect, once again, to stumble upon a murder.
With anti-British sentiment on the rise, a charismatic religious leader growing in influence, and the fight for women’s suffrage gaining steam, Bangalore is turning out to be a far more dangerous and treacherous place than Kaveri ever imagined—and everyone’s motives are suspect.
Missing Daughter
by Rick Mofina
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Jackal’s Head
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A woman returns to Egypt to clear her archaeologist father’s name in this mystery by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody series.
Althea Tomlinson’s ostensible reason for returning to Egypt is to chaperone a spoiled teenager through this fabulous desert land. The truth is more complex—and dangerous. Ten years ago, something that happened here brought about her archaeologist father’s ruin and subsequent death. . . . and Althea intends to clear his disgraced name and finally lay a dark past to rest…
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.3 #ad
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder.
When a life-shattering event suddenly threatens their relationship, Rachel finds her life spiraling out of control until she is eventually forced to ask herself the question she fears the most. Just how well do we really know those around us?
The Goodbye Man
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING CBS ORIGINAL SERIES TRACKER
In this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, reward-seeker Colter Shaw infiltrates a sinister cult after learning that the only way to get somebody out…is to go in.
In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame.
Special Forces Savior
by Janie Crouch
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Omega Sector agent Derek Waterman is hunting the architects of a lethal terrorist bombing. After weeks of chasing cold leads, he has finally found the evidence that could expose the perpetrators. But in order to take them down, he needs help from Dr. Molly Humphries, Omega’s lead forensic scientist.
Shy Molly works to retrieve the data-and overcome her debilitating crush on the sexy agent. Derek carefully suppresses his mutual smoldering attraction, sure that his dark past will drive Molly away if she knows. But when Molly’s kidnapped, he will stop at nothing to save her. Even if a lethal enemy will do everything to keep him from doing so.
Unmask Alice
by Rick Emerson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud.
In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD’s fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book’s mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.
But Alice was only the beginning.
The Other Side of Never
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The award-winning Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane bring together the masters of fantasy, science-fiction and horror, to spin stories inspired by J. M. Barrie’s classic tale.
A murder investigation leads a detective to a strange place called Neverland; pupils attend a school for Peters; a young boy loses his shadow and goes to desperate lengths to retrieve it.
These stories take the original tales of Peter & Wendy, the Lost Boys and Tinkerbell, twisting and turning them. From dystopias to the gritty streets of London, these stories will keep you reading all night and straight on ‘til morning.
Dark Tales
by Shirley Jackson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People.” In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There’s something sinister in suburbia.
The Secrets of Italian Self Care
by Dr. Eugene Antenucci
Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you want to elevate your health and wellness to new heights, this book will help uncover the secrets that have made Italy the top country worldwide regarding health and longevity.
Italians and people living in other “Blue Zone” countries live longer, healthier, and more vital lives than any other country in the world by far. There are proven aspects of the Italian lifestyle seen in their daily routines that provide a roadmap for personal transformation.
The Mediterranean Diet has long been hailed for its ability to prevent heart disease and certain cancers, and nutrition Italian-style is the Mediterranean Diet and more.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Riley’s End
by Bill Hansmann
Rating: 4.5 #ad
‘Big Tony’ Cevilli’s best friend, was murdered over a half-century ago, and the crime remains unsolved. Now in declining health, ‘Big Tony’ pleads with his children, Linda Atkinson and Tommy Cevilli of the Atkinson Detective Agency, to solve the long-ago crime.
Suzie Fredricks, the agency’s newest investigator, tracks down the perpetrators of a stolen car ring. These two investigations have a surprising connection that will leave the readers stunned. Riley’s End is an exciting page-turner right up to its startling conclusion. The fourth installment of the Atkinson Detective Agency series will not disappoint.
Presumed Guilty
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Miranda Wood thinks she has seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover—until she discovers him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife.
Miranda is the obvious suspect, and she looks even guiltier when her bail is posted by an anonymous donor. Was this an act of kindness designed to buy her time to clear her name? Or is someone trying to manipulate Miranda and draw her into the dark and secret world of a murdered man, where everybody’s presumed guilty?
The Book of Cold Cases
by Simone St. James
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.
In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect—a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion…
One Dark Night
by Anna Faversham
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Readers’ Favorite 5* Review and Bronze Award
It is 1821 and smuggling is rife on the English coast. Lucy Yorton, dragged away from her privileged early life, must slave, friendless, on a bleak, run-down farm. Those around her suspect she is a spy and treat her accordingly. Her problems increase when two men enter her life.
Lieutenant Karl Thorsen, sworn to avenge the murder of his father, is a King’s man. He is determined to stop the violent smugglers, hang them, and hang and gibbet one in particular. Daniel Tynton has smuggling in his blood. Undaunted by Thorsen’s threats, he is respected and feared, and adored by his trusty dog. The choices we make determine our futures and Lucy is torn between two determined men as the secrets and lies undermining her life are exposed. How can she find a way to love and trust again?
Good Girls Lie
by J.T. Ellison
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond.
But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous.
A Lethal Landlord
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bruised and bloodied but too proud to ask for help, Chaz’s future looks grim.
When Medal of Honor recipient, Josh Kennelly, sees a fellow veteran assaulted, he decides to even the odds. In doing so, he stumbles across an egregious rental racket.
Up against corrupt police, unconscionable lawyers, and evil landlords, Josh and his faithful dog, Tsar, face the impossible.
The Heroes of Eastbrooke Series (Books 1-4)
by Juliette Duncan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Clean, pulse-pounding, Christian Romantic Suspense. This collection bundles all four romantic suspense titles in Juliette Duncan’s best-selling Heroes of Eastbrooke series into one e-book for a great value!
After twenty years, mystery still surrounds the death of Police Chief Stanley Carlton. His sons believe he was murdered. And now, strange things are happening in the picturesque mountainside village of Eastbrooke.
A teen is kidnapped. A body washes up in the river outside of town. A cult takes up residence in the mountains. The mountain pass offers a perfect smuggling route to the coast. Not just for drugs, but for weapons and human trafficking.
Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“You are the next step in human evolution.”
At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.
But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.