Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death, Dice & Southern Spice
by Sigrid Vansandt
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A DELIGHTFUL COZY MYSTERY FULL OF QUAINT VILLAGES, QUIRKY CHARACTERS, AND MADCAP ADVENTURES BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Helen Ryes and Martha Littleword, two Americans living in England, become fast friends and amateur sleuths when a murder lands them in hot water. Killers unfortunately rarely stop at just one murder and the tome-filled libraries, ivy-covered manor homes, and lush countryside of England can be decidedly deadly!
When Martha’s Aunt Tilda runs afoul of a Cuban mafioso, the wig-loving queen of the poker tournament circuit goes on the run with her partner in crime, Jackie ‘Boy’ Divine. Terrified they will end up as divalicious shark bait, Tilda calls in Helen and Martha to find a priceless family heirloom, a sapphire and ruby necklace, she hopes will pay off her gambling debt.
The Complete Benbow Smith Mysteries
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Cloak-and-dagger intrigue featuring an eccentric agent for Britain’s Foreign Office from the author of the “timelessly charming” Miss Silver mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod).
Named after three naval admirals, the enigmatic gentleman spy Benbow Collingwood Horatio Smith detests the sea and loves to indulge his beloved parrot, Ananias, all while protecting the fate of the Western world.
Fool Errant,
Danger Calling,
Walk with Care,
Down Under
To Wake the Giant
by Jeff Shaara
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan’s ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, who wage their own war of conquest across Europe.
Meanwhile, the British stand nearly alone against Hitler, and there is pressure in Washington to transfer America’s powerful fleet of warships from Hawaii to the Atlantic to join the fight against German U-boats that are devastating shipping. But despite deep concerns about weakening the Pacific fleet, no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat.
Our Own Devices
by B.D. Lutz
Rating: 4.7 #ad
How much control have we ceded to our devices? Do they influence us? Do they manipulate us to accept the absurd as truth and convince us that dystopia is actually utopia? The stories in our own devices explore those very questions.
I Am Machine: Your status in life rests in the circuitry of a computer unlike any before. Her name is May-Scene, and she is your AI guide to a better life. All you have to do to reach May-Scene level is accept the Social Credit System and let it control every aspect of your life…
Threshold: Our devices stream the world into our homes twenty-four hours a day. Endless news cycles have become the norm. The media mastered the use of fear to capture our attention and employs it with merciless efficiency…
Challenge: When Iris finally wins a Challenge-bid, she’s convinced internet fame will follow. She simply needs to live to enjoy it.
The Leper of Saint Giles
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this mystery in the award-winning series featuring a twelfth-century Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret behind a savage murder.
Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. But as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony’s gates…
The Book of Isle: The Complete Series
by Nancy Springer
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now in one volume, the entire epic series set in an ancient island sanctuary of gods and magic—from “the finest fantasy writer of this or any decade” (Marion Zimmer Bradley).
Anne McCaffrey has praised Nancy Springer as “someone special in the fantasy field.” Andre Norton agrees that “Ms. Springer’s work is outstanding.” Now the multiple award-winning author’s classic five-part epic fantasy is presented in a single volume. In the grand tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Book of Isle saga draws on Arthurian and Celtic legend to create a wholly original, imaginary world brimming with adventure, romance, evil, mythic quests, and vividly described locales.
Don’t Stop Me: Vic
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The only woman he has ever loved has sworn to hate him forever.
The first book in the McCabe Brothers, a spinoff of the big family romance series The Friessens from New York Times & USA Today bestselling Author Lorhainne Eckhart.
Fifteen years ago, Vic McCabe was headed down a one-way road to destruction with the love of his life. But then the unthinkable happened, a mistake that changed their lives forever.
Successful billionaire contractor Vic McCabe is a man every woman wants, but he gives his heart to no one. However, one day a reporter shows up, asking questions about a past he’s buried, a mistake he made fifteen years ago that could destroy his future and that of the woman he’s tried to forget.
Finding Your True Self
by Dr. Paul Serwinek
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Are you leading the life that you envision for yourself?
Finding Your True Self is an inspiring book that will motivate you to find your identity and uncover your inner being. Paul Serwinek guides you through the path of self discovery and adopting a healthier mindset on how to manage all the aspects of life. Discover new and practical perspectives from a respectable expert. This book will encourage you to reflect and rediscover the missing pieces of your life.
Come to know the true you and find a path to the flourishing life you envision for yourself. You will develop a step-by-step process to uncover the person you were intended to be.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Diva Says Cheesecake!
by Krista Davis
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Old Town’s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue’s homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees.
Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn’t the only thing missing from the evening – Tate, Bobbie Sue’s husband, is too, much to her annoyance. Next morning, however, Tate’s dead body is discovered.
Elvenshore: The Complete Series
by Clark Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the first meeting of Dwarf and man in the Westwood Forest, the series covers four lands and many races, including; Dwarves, Elves, Druids, Dragons, Valkyrie, Satyr, Minotaur, Trolls, and a whole host of other races. With epic battles and large armies.
“The author is very good at creating believable characters in this collection. Would have rated it 5 stars but the E-books had too many grammatical errors that made you read the sentence twice to figure out what it was saying. There is plenty of action and surprises that otherwise make it an enjoyable read.” by Amazon Customer
Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses — honed during her years in the dark — and keen deductive abilities.
Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related?
The Hunted
by Lisa Childs
Rating: 4.3 #ad
YOU’RE GOING TO PAY
The pressures of fame and an obsessive stalker have driven pop star Olivia Smith to take shelter at Halcyon Hall, an exclusive spa on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Yet from the moment she arrives, there are rumors about women disappearing, and stories about the resort’s grisly past. Then a note arrives from her stalker, proving that nowhere is truly safe . . .
It’s been twenty-five years since Sheriff Deacon Howell discovered his first dead body on these grounds. Back then, Halcyon Hall was an asylum known as Bainesworth Manor. Others have perished here since, including Deacon’s wife…
Wintervention
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The next book in the Jamie Austen series is bone-chilling! Literally.
Jamie’s next CIA mission takes her to the Arctic Circle. Where there’s only one hour of daylight every day and the temperature is fifty below zero. Complicated when she confronts a Tuniit. A giant who stands more than seven feet tall.
This book will have you laughing and crying. In the same chapter! International #1 Best Selling author, Terry Toler, doesn’t disappoint. When you get to the end, this fast-moving page turner will warm your heart.
A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Box Set
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 5.0 #ad
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new crossover series! The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Trap, Above the Law and The Stranger at the Door
“Adventure and mystery always happens to Billy Jo. After taking a late night call her nightmare becomes reality. Can Mark save the day and solve the mystery.” S. Jordans, Goodreads
An Almost Perfect Murder
by Gary C. King
Rating: 3.6 #ad
A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story by the author of Stolen in the Night.
A Woman with A Passion For Power . . .
Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball—and pushing her way through the old boy’s network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people shed tears—including the man who killed her.
A Killer with A Foolproof Plan . . .
Crystal Creek Boxed Set
by Laura Haley-McNeil
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Welcome to Crystal Creek where the women are strong, and powerful men will do anything to protect the women they love.
Steeling Her Heart: She agrees to enter a loveless marriage, but the man who stole her heart will do anything to stop her. The holidays are over, and aristocrat Anna Whitloch must leave Crystal Creek and return to Eastern Europe. She made a promise, a promise that will save her mother’s estate.
Risking Her Heart: A novel of suspense, revenge and a love so deep that it can only be released through forgiveness.
Defending Her Heart: He longs for peace. She stirs things up. When the past comes calling, will he risk it all to come to her rescue?
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Basement Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.3 #ad
You’ll love Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt, a novel by Ann Hazelwood, you’ll get to know the family and friends of Anne Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs will seem so familiar you’ll identify with her right away. Anne decides to learn to quilt to help her aunt, and in the process learns family secrets. Then she uncovers a mysterious presence in her mother’s basement, or does she? Anne learns about love, too, in various forms. She and the members of the Colebridge community go through some big life changes. Are their decisions wise or does trouble lie ahead?
Dead in the Water
by Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy—and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.
In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up – and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered.
Fog City Fraud
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Why would a law-abiding citizen hold a knife to a young girl’s throat and drag her onto the ledge of a high-rise building in San Francisco?
Returned war hero, Josh Kennelly, is hiding a dark secret and knows he risks being exposed if he attempts to save her. A police bullet ends the standoff, and when the man plunges to his death, he takes the reasons for his momentary madness with him.
Devastated, his heartbroken daughter seeks Josh out and asks him to help find out why her father snapped.
Winter Chill
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 3.7 #ad
A small town is rocked by a string of suspicious accidents in this suspense thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Child.
The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian’s husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground.
Friends and colleagues in Marian’s Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents.
Have You Seen Me?
by Kate White
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a gripping novel about one woman’s dangerous quest to recover lost memories someone would rather she never find.
On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he’s shocked to see her—because, he explains, she hasn’t worked there in five years.
Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the psychiatric ER, she begins to piece together important facts: she lives on the Upper West Side; she’s now a freelance journalist; she’s married to a terrific man named Hugh. More memories materialize and yet she still can’t recall anything about the previous two days.
Now That You Mention It
by Kristan Higgins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.
Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There’s only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn’t necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.
Witching the Night Away Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.7 #ad
12 witch romance novellas by New York Times, USA Today, and other bestselling authors.
I was so excited to see this wonderful anthology become available! It is filled with some of my favorite authors I have been reading for years, and here they are gathered up in this wonderful book! I highly recommend giving this Anthology a try. There are also new-to-me authors I can’t wait to “meet” here. Below is a review of one of those “favorites” to give you an idea of what you can find in this collection.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dog-Gone Dead
by Jackie Layton
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Who’d have thought mulch could cause such a stink?
Low Country dog walker Andi Grace Scott is happy to score some free mulch from one of her brother’s landscaping jobs—until she discovers the dead body buried beneath the bark.
Worse, her brother’s landscaping tools were used to commit the murder. Once the police arrest her brother and seem happy to have “caught their man,” Andi Grace has no choice but to track down the real killer. She’ll risk everything to prove her brother’s innocence. Even if it means turning over every rock in town.
Hide
by Kiersten White
Rating: 3.9 #ad
The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don’t get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything.
Even though everyone is desperate to win – to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past—Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she’s an expert at that. It’s the reason she’s alive and her family isn’t.
The Last House on Needless Street
by Catriona Ward
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“The buzz…is real. I’ve read it and was blown away. It’s a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end.” – Stephen King
Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel!
A World Fantasy Award Finalist!
Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.
Chronicles of Zoey Grimm Complete Series Boxed Set
by Theophilus Monroe, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.1 #ad
My brother is taking over the family business…
It was something I’d trained for my entire life. I was more suited for it than he was in almost every way. Except for the most important one… the ability he’d inherited from our father.
Why wasn’t I born with the same powers? I’m leaving the underworld. I don’t belong there anymore. Of course, I only have one marketable skill: Kicking ass and taking names. How can I use that to start a new life for myself on Earth? Unfortunately, vigilantism doesn’t pay the bills.
Double Blind
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors Iris and Roy Johansen are back with Double Blind, an electrifying novel that will leave your heart racing.
Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body was found just blocks away from Kendra’s condo. The young woman was carrying an envelope with Kendra’s name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. The woman died trying to get the video to Kendra, but for what purpose? Before Kendra and the FBI can answer that question, the bride is abducted from her suburban home.
Badlands
by C.J. Box
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In C.J. Box’s New York Times bestseller, Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever encountered. . .
Twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard dreams of getting out of Grimstad and leading a better life. Even though Kyle has been written off as a “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine. One day, while delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a mysterious bundle from the scene. Suddenly he’s in possession of a lot of money—and packets of white powder—and Kyle can’t help but wonder whether his luck has changed…for better or for worse.
Killing the Legends
by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more.
Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life—until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted.
In Killing the Legends, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard explore the lives, legacies, and tragic deaths of three of the most famous people of the 20th century. Each experienced immense success, then failures that forced them to change; each faced the challenge of growing old in fields that privilege youth; and finally, each became isolated, cocooned by wealth but vulnerable to the demands of those in their innermost circles.
Runaway Dragon Mates
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Six brides dressed in white—ready to say, “I do—” discover no other choice but to run away. Fate leads each woman to a hot and irresistible alpha dragon shifter—who wants to protect his one and only. But when the ex-fiancé shows up for revenge, it’s a bloody battle…in the name of love.
“The series is tied together with the thread of death and corruption. Wonderfully strong female characters and of course the passion that comes with Dragons who are beyond their human world.” by Amazon Customer
Vanished
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
‘A 2016 Readers Favorite Award Winner in Suspense’
She thought her nightmare was over
Abby has married the man of her dreams. He rescued her, and he’s the father of her child. Everything should be perfect, but she begins to relive her nightmare from when she was taken… and one night she disappears, leaving her children alone in the dead of night, her husband on a military ship halfway around the world. But when Eric arrives home and the search begins, there are two disturbing questions: Was someone in the house? And how is it possible for Abby to simply vanish?
