Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Spines and Slaughter
by ACF Bookens
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces.
When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they’re having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake.
Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it’s too late?
Special Agent Walker
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Agent Walker drops his beloved goddaughter off at the same school where minutes later a shooter begins the devil’s work.
Lori Page, an FBI profiler, spots a boy on a bus who’s acting strange. When he disembarks, she notices what appears to be a rifle in his backpack. Suspicions triggered and her instincts screaming, she follows him into his school where all hell breaks loose.
Intrigued by the weird behavior of a mysterious beauty, Beau follows her into the building and they both find themselves at the same crime scene. He eventually pairs up with this fascinating woman to stop the coming violence.
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The Millennium Trilogy
by Stieg Larsson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discover the books that changed the way the world reads crime – Stieg Larsson’s phenomenal global blockbuster, the Millennium Trilogy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
“So much more than a thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a dazzling novel of big ideas” Harlan Coben
Hard to Be a God
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works.
It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play?
DEMON SEED
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 3.9 #ad
This frightening cult-favorite thriller now features a NEW BONUS SHORT STORY, “Friend of Man and Woman.”
Susan Harris lived in self-imposed seclusion, her mansion featuring numerous automated systems controlled by a state-of-the-art computer. Every comfort was provided. Her security was absolute.
Until her security system is breached – from the inside. In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, she will experience an inconceivable act of terror and become the object of the ultimate computer’s consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.
Season of Skulls
by Charles Stross
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain’s avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he’s dead. But though she’s now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she’s not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge–and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions.
Blink of an Eye
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Don’t blink
A gripping thrill ride begins when Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit witnesses a murder and finds himself possessing an ancient artifact with mystical powers. The investigation leads him to the Spiro Mounds Archeological Museum, where he meets the gorgeous Chief Archeologist Thorn Little Deer and discovers someone recently stole the artifact he now possesses – the priceless Black Cup of Oklahoma.
A deadly ex-Army Ranger with the nickname Blade may be responsible for both the theft and the murder. As Buck sets out to catch the thief, he joins a cryptid expedition to the rugged Kiamichi Mountains.
Harm’s Way
by John Gilstrap
Rating: 4.0 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE
Unstoppable Jonathan Grave uncovers a major threat to American security in the latest action-packed adventure in the long-running, bestselling black-ops series.
Twelve missionaries have been snatched in a remote area of Venezuela and are being held for ransom. The high-priority rescue mission comes as a personal plea from FBI director Irene Rivers. It also carries a Presidential demand: no international incident. Just get in and get out—with hostages who are far from cooperative, but nonetheless precious cargo.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Homemade Sin
by Mary Kay Andrews
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the third book in this acclaimed series, Callahan Garrity runs afoul of her own family when she insists on investigating the carjacking death of the cousin she idolized.
Some people might call Callahan Garrity nosy, but she prefers to think of her tendency toward snooping as a healthy interest in the truth. So when news of her cousin Patti’s death reaches her, Callahan shakes off her House Mouse cleaning uniform to don her detective’s cap. It’s not that she doesn’t have confidence in the Atlanta police—she used to be among their ranks—it’s just that the crime seems too incongruous with Patti’s suburban life to be an accident.
Cradle of Life
by R.A. Williams
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In recent years, new scientific discoveries have cast doubt on the theory of evolution. One of these discoveries proves that unguided evolution is impossible. Yet we still teach this outdated, unproven theory in our schools as if it were true.
After tenured professor Dr. Paul Eisen challenges the status quo by teaching his class on evolution in a way that encourages the notion of Intelligent Design, a lawsuit from the Freedom From Religion Foundation forces him to resign. But when Dr. Eisen makes an astonishing discovery that proves unguided evolution is impossible, he nearly loses his life to someone seemingly determined to keep his discovery secret.
Seven Suspects
by Renee James
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bobbi Logan is a successful businesswoman and a celebrated hairdresser. She is a witty, articulate woman who has survived rape, gender transition, a murder investigation, and countless acts of bullying and bigotry to get where she is—and she’s made enemies along the way. Now one of them is stalking her. With each passing day, the threats become more brazen, more violent, and more personal. No one knows who here stalker is or why he’s after her, but he’s getting closer every day.
Bobbi is intimidated but she has vowed to never be the victim again. She accumulates a list of six suspects, and with courage and persistence, she hunts them down, one by one—stalking her possible stalkers. But as she confronts those men who may want to do her harm, the number seven keeps haunting her—there must be a seventh suspect.
MisFortune Cookies
by Deb Graham
Rating: 3.7 #ad
When is an innocent fortune cookie not so innocent?
After Jane’s shady landlord damages her house, her life is turned upside down. A Chinese take-out fortune cookie paper says Adventure Awaits and she decides it’s time to step out of her colorless life, to pursue her bucket list binder, one little dream at a time. Along the way, more and more fortune cookies pop up, increasingly threatening, in random places. Fearing for her life, Jane flees to her old hometown. Can Jane fight back against the fortune cookies’ threats in time?
In Plain Sight
by Ross Coulthart
Rating: 4.6 #ad
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes … Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived.
Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand’s Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. The 1978 sighting is just one of thousands since the 1940s, and yet research into UFOs is still seen by many as the realm of crackpots and conspiracy theorists.
In 2020, however, after decades of denial, the US Department of Defense made the astonishing admission that strange aerial and underwater objects frequently reported and videoed by pilots and tracked by sensors are real, unexplained and pose a genuine national security concern.
Agent of Change
by Janet Walden-West
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The vampires are uniting.
There’s a sword hanging over my family’s head.
And I’ve accidentally adopted a semi-feral killer who thinks I’m his fated-mate.
As the team’s intel specialist, I can hack a CCTV camera in my sleep, and my contact network is the best in the Company’s history. It still took getting captured for me to discover how close our enemies are. At least I left a surprise planted in their system.
The Beckoning Lady
by Margery Allingham
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered—and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception.
Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago . . .
Tides of Fire
by James Rollins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE at REGULAR PRICE.
In the latest riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it’s up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet.
The Titan Project—an international research station off the coast of Australia—discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarin
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Baker’s Rise Mysteries Books 1 to 4
by R. A. Hutchins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A delightfully humorous series of culinary cozy murder mysteries following amateur sleuth Flora Miller, her feathered sidekick, and the quirky residents of Baker’s Rise.
This collection includes the first four books in the series:
“Here Today, Scone Tomorrow”
When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
A Kind of Justice
by Renee James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Against all odds, Bobbi Logan, a statuesque transgender woman, has become one of Chicago’s most celebrated hair stylists and the owner of one of the city’s poshest salons. She is finally comfortable with who she is, widely admired in her community, about to enjoy the success she deserves.
Then her impossibly perfect life falls apart.
In the space of a few weeks, the Great Recession drags her business to the brink of failure, her beloved ex-wife needs help in facing a terrible tragedy, and a hateful police detective storms back into her life, determined to convict her of the five-year-old murder of John Strand—pillar of the community—and a sexual predator.
The Firm
by John Grisham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!
For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer Mitch McDeere couldn’t refuse: a position at a law firm where the bucks, billable hours, and benefits are over the top. It’s a dream job for an up-and-comer—if he can overlook the uneasy feeling he gets at the office. Then an FBI investigation into the firm’s connections to the Mafia plunges the straight and narrow attorney into a nightmare of terror and intrigue. With no choice but to pit his wits, ethics, and legal skills against the firm’s deadly secrets—if he hopes to stay alive…
Broken
by Karin Slaughter
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Broken features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . .
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner’s death. He doesn’t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn’t understand her role in the death of Grant County’s popular police chief.
The Mercury Protocols
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Ripped from yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s headlines. Book Six of the Best Selling and Award-Winning Eden Stories
In a secret room somewhere on Mercury, the Eliminati controls all of the governmental and societal structure. The six evil men decide who lives and who dies in the form of protocols, issued to suppress speech, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, and the elimination of every threat to their power.
At Revelation Church, Gohn, a lowly pastor, seemingly powerless, begins to see visions and dream dreams. God reveals to him what is happening in the end times, and he’s called to resist the protocols and reveal the truth behind the Eliminati and the threat to the world.
The Berlin Family’s Secret
by Baruch Cohen
Rating: 4.8 #ad
They were loyal subjects of the Reich… until it came knocking on their door.
Berlin, 1942. As bombs fall over Europe during the darkest days of World War II, the Kerner family is torn apart by a shocking revelation that, if found out, could spell their doom.
Frantz Kerner and his three grown children have each found their own way of serving their Fatherland. But when Frantz reveals a long-hidden secret, the foundations of their world are shaken to the core as they are forced to confront their loyalty to the Nazi regime – and to each other…
For You and Only You
by Caroline Kepnes
Rating: 3.8 #ad
“Twisted . . . delightfully creepy.” – Rolling Stone
Joe Goldberg is ready for a change. Instead of selling books, he’s writing them. And he’s off to a good start. Glenn Shoddy, an acclaimed literary author, recognizes Joe’s genius and invites him to join a tight-knit writing fellowship at Harvard. Finally, Joe will be in a place where talent matters more than pedigree . . . where intellect is the great equalizer and anything is possible. Even happy endings. Or so he thinks, until he meets his already-published, already-distinguished peers, who all seem to be cut from the same elitist cloth.
Bryant & May
by Christopher Fowler
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncovers a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady – and when the case leads them to London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit.
When ninety-one-year-old Amelia Hoffman dies in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system.
But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs. Hoffman was once a government security expert, though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed.
Fool’s Assassin
by Robin Hobb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Over the years, Hobb’s imagination has soared throughout the mythic lands of the Six Duchies in such bestselling series as the Liveship Traders Trilogy and the Rain Wilds Chronicles. But no matter how far she roamed, her heart always remained with Fitz. And now, at last, she has come home, with an astonishing new novel that opens a dark and gripping chapter in the Farseer saga.
FitzChivalry – royal bastard and former king’s assassin – has left his life of intrigue behind. As far as the rest of the world knows, FitzChivalry Farseer is dead and buried. Masquerading as Tom Badgerlock, Fitz is now married to his childhood sweetheart, Molly, and leading the quiet life of a country squire.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Mirror Lake
by Juneau Black
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Change is afoot in Shady Hollow, with an unusually tense election shaping up between long-serving Chief of Police Theodore Meade and Vera’s beau, Deputy Orville Braun. But the political tension takes a back seat when resident eccentric Dorothy Springfield becomes convinced her beloved husband, Edward, is dead, and that the rat claiming to be him is actually a fraud.
While most of the town dismisses Dorothy’s rants as nothing more than a delusion, Vera has her doubts. More than a few things don’t add up in the Springfield household, but Vera will have to tread carefully, since, with Orville’s attention on the election, she may be more exposed than ever.
The Protector
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A heart divided . . . An enemy unseen . . . A riddle of trust.
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, must defend her home in the Pine Barrens while she struggles to revive her career and salvage a long-distance romance. What is God doing? And who can she trust?
“Excellent series of suspense, love of God And other exciting romances. Need more from Gloria Repp. I highly recommend this series” by Amazon Customer
The Jester
by James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to find his son killed, his wife kidnapped, and his town gutted in the search for a priceless relic . . . and now, he must fight to save everything he holds dear.
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They search for a relic, one worth more than any throne in Europe, and no man can stand in their way.
But now, disguised as a jester, Hugh is able to infiltrate the castle where he believes his wife is being held captive. When a man is fighting for freedom, for his wife, and for everything he holds dear, he’s a worthy opponent . . . maybe even unstoppable.
The Patriot Oath
by Lloyd Lofthouse
Rating: 4.3 #ad
He fought for his country. Now he’s home and engaged in the deadliest of battles.
Josh Kavanagh eats and breathes loyalty. Wary of how he’ll fit in after a twenty-four-year absence, the Special Forces legend returns to his family’s Montana ranch on an undercover mission. And though he’s anxious to see the high school sweetheart he abandoned a lifetime ago, the dedicated Marine’s greatest concern is tracking down a dangerous neo-Nazi cell.
Juggling unresolved feelings for the woman he left behind, a sister expecting him to avenge her brutal rape, and keeping his own covert activities secret, Josh discovers the threat to the US is bigger than anyone previously thought. And when a member of his team goes MIA and the danger creeps perilously close to home, the talented military man fears he’ll lose everything he holds dear…
Three Steps Away
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
He was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person. Now, he’s forced to assume an identity from his past.
CIA covert operative Titus Ray always figured one day he might encounter someone who knew him as a different person from a previous operation. He just never expected it to happen on a family vacation.
It was the wrong place . . . While vacationing in Bridgetown, Barbados, Titus suddenly finds himself face-to-face with an Iranian businessman who knew him as Hammid Salimi when he was living in Tehran during a deep-cover operation. Forced to resume his old identity, Titus learns of a Russian government scheme to help Iran avoid strict economic sanctions imposed on them by the U.S.
It was the wrong time . . . When Hammid Salimi receives an invitation to attend a party on the island where both Russian and Iranian bankers will be present, Titus risks his life to learn more about Russia’s plans to aid the Iranian regime.
Edge of Evil
by J. A. Jance
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Fired abruptly from her anchor position at a prominent news station for being `too old’, Ali Reynolds returns to her home to learn that her best friend is dead – apparently by suicide, over a snowy mountain after a fatal medical diagnosis. Realizing she has no constraints on her time, Ali heads back to her hometown and her parents’ Sugarloaf Café, where she grew up. Ali has another wonderful discovery on her way to her hometown – her marriage is over. Her husband has been cheating on her for a while, unbeknownst to her but known by most others. So, in the midst of a lawsuit against the station and divorce proceedings, Ali hunkers down in the house she inherited from her aunt, venting her frustrations and problems on a blog that her son has set up for her. Little does she suspect what ball her ruminations will set rolling.
The Nanny
by Gilly Macmillan
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, behind.
Thirty years later, Jo returns to the house and is forced to confront her troubled relationship with her mother. But when human remains are accidentally uncovered in a lake on the estate, Jo begins to question everything she thought she knew.
WarCraft: War of The Ancients Book Two
by Richard A. Knaak
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The night elf defenders, led by the young druid, Malfurion Stormrage, and the wizard, Krasus, fight a desperate battle to hold back the Legion’s terrible onslaught. Though only embers of hope remain, an ancient power has risen to aid the world in its darkest hour. The dragons — led by the powerful Aspect, Neltharion — have forged a weapon of incalculable power: the Dragon Soul, an artifact capable of driving the Legion from the world forever. But its use may cost far more than any could have foreseen.