Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A FALSE CONCLUSION
by VERONICA HELEY
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A DELICIOUSLY QUIRKY COZY MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Meet Bea Abbot. Life in leafy Kensington should be all Georgian houses, beautiful parks and charming tea shops. But it turns out there are plenty of murders to solve for our amateur sleuth.
Bea can’t wait to have Bernice, her sparky teenage ward, home from boarding school for the summer. Little does she know, Bernice won’t be her only guest . . .
Undead Worlds
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Undead Worlds: A Reanimated Writers Anthology is about 22 Authors, 22 Undead worlds who come together to form 1 Wicked Awesome Read!!
I read all 22 stories and I was on the edge of my seat. Would they get bit, would they survive, would they die??? Omg why did this story end?? I can see the book coming out next!!
I knew some authors in book and got to meet more. This is such a great way to experience an author. I was able to enjoy all stories even though I wanted more on some and others I was happy with ending. I highly recommend this book! What better way to find out if someone is alive, dead, or undead!! Enjoy the Apocalypse World like never before!” by Amazon Customer
One Final Breath
by Lynn H. Blackburn
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When investigator Gabriel Chavez had his cover blown by an aggressive reporter, the silver lining was being able to rejoin the dive team. The downside? Dive team captain Anissa Bell–a woman who both fascinates and frustrates him.
Anissa grew up as a missionary kid on the Micronesian island of Yap and always planned to return after college. But she remained stateside, determined to solve the case that haunts her–the murder of her best friend and the disappearance of a three-year-old child.
Influencing Justice
by Peter Kirkland
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A small town murder hides a dark secret…
When online influencer Simone Baker asks Leland Munroe to defend her on a criminal charge, the small town lawyer is ready to say no. He’s not a criminal lawyer—despite what the people of Basking Rock seem to think. Social media and manslaughter are both far from his area of expertise. But with no other clients coming through his door, Leland takes the job to make ends meet.
At first, he figures the prosecution’s weak evidence should make for a simple defense. But Simone’s case isn’t as straightforward as it seems, and her testimony weaves a tale of missing young women, racism, and evidence tampering by local police.
A Noble Radiance
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Commissario Brunetti delves into the shadows of a Venetian family’s past in this “gripping intellectual mystery” in the New York Times–bestselling series (Publishers Weekly).
In A Noble Radiance, a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves to be a clue that reopens an infamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice’s most aristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel the clues and find his way into both the hearts of patrician Venice and that of a family grieving for their abducted son.
Return to Brigand’s Gate
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Birch Patterson served his country. Now he’s saving his home.
When Birch returns home from the war, he’s shocked to discover how much Brigand’s Gate has changed. The town he loved so much is gone, and in its place is a den of iniquity.
The Art of Finding FLOW
by Damon Zahariades
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Radically Improve Your Performance, Creativity, and Productivity in Every Area of Your Life!
Elite athletes do it. Successful executives do it. World-class musicians do it. Top-performing students do it. They take advantage of flow to achieve remarkable goals and accomplish extraordinary feats.
Until now, the flow state of mind has been treated as a mystery. Most people leave it to luck. Some leave it to their muse. Others rarely experience it, if ever. They can’t imagine being able to focus for more than a minute or two, much less for hours on end.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Greene Murder Case
by S.S. Van Dine
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Outrageous cleverness . . . among the finest fruits of the Golden Age” featuring amateur sleuth Philo Vance – from the author of The Canary Murder Case (Bloody Murder).
Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance—the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest (and did we mention handsome?) amateur sleuth—uses his detective skills to unravel the murders, though sadly not before most of the Greene family has been bumped off. But that’s Our Philo: The Sleuth You Love to Hate.
The Weird and the Eerie
by Mark Fisher
Rating: 4.6 #ad
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown.
In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie.
Bridge Home
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Following the tragic death of Egan Firewalker Quartz after only a short marriage, Texas Miz Mike’s stepdaughter, Flame, blindsides her with a vacation in Scotland—as well as an extremely unexpected boyfriend! The vacation turns chaotic when Mike finds a body while out walking—and minding her own business, of course!
Mike discovers the victim is connected to her former fiancé, Reverend Alan Evan Kirkland. An eyewitness claims to have seen Evan running from the murder scene. Evan is arrested for murder, partly because he had refused to hold a same-sex marriage ceremony in his church. That action created an uproar in his parish after the murder victim fought her case in the newspapers. While Mike attempts to prove his innocence, she’s arrested on a false charge.
Mantle and Key Complete Series
by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Half-troll. Half-human. All badass.
Maine doesn’t like her father. It doesn’t help that he’s a troll. As in a literal, lives-under-a-bridge troll.
When her father is killed, Maine returns home to settle his estate and learns that he wasn’t any ordinary troll, but the town hero. And since she’s inherited his Mantle, assassins are now gunning for her.
Grab this complete series boxed set and find out if Maine can uncover the truth about her father and answers to other supernatural mysteries.
Briggleton’s Choir
by Kelsie Deschenes
Rating: 4.8 #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…
How will he handle the numerous life-changing conflicts coming his way, including the fact that his new friend is a Jew wanted by the Nazis? Will Alfonso be able to stand up for what’s right for the first time in his life? Will he find his voice?
What Goes On In The Walls At Night
by Andrew Schrader
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Winner: 2018 Red City Review Book Award (Fantasy)
Featured on the Reddit No Sleep Podcast, What Goes On in the Walls at Night is a twisted and shocking collection of tales from the borders of reality.
Satisfy your craving for the odd and unexpected with stories of building-eating children, pants-grabbing TSA agents, and nature-devouring machines. Sit back, strap in, and let this powerful collection of interesting and other-worldly adventures take you away.
The Liar’s Girl
by Catherine Ryan Howard
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“A very satisfying and twisty tale.” – Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel. Her first love confessed to five murders … but the truth was so much worse.
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin’s elite St. John’s College—and Ireland’s most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his five young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen, Will is locked away in the city’s Central Psychiatric Hospital.
A Hussar’s Promise
by Griffin Brady
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Betrayal and war. Can love survive?
Betrayed by the lord he has served since boyhood, Jacek Dąbrowski, a captain of winged hussars, has just been exiled to a remote fortress along the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s southeastern border—a dangerous no man’s land where reviled Tatar raiders constantly hunt for fresh slaves to satisfy the Ottoman Empire’s insatiable appetites.
But Jacek’s lord, Eryk Krezowski of Biaska, has taken far more—he has also taken Jacek’s only love, Oliwia, for himself. Determined to forget Oliwia and Eryk, Jacek grinds out a new life in the war zone that is now his home. When tragedy strikes and he is called back, he cannot refuse and must once again confront those who have betrayed him.
Chaos In The Blink Of An Eye Part Two: The Aftermath
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
On a cold, blustery, snowy Saturday in late November, more than 111,000 people were crammed inside Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to watch the Michigan Wolverines play the Ohio State Buckeyes. It was a heated college football rivalry that had spanned more than a century.
No one inside the stadium was prepared for what would soon unfold. As the football was kicked into the snow-filled sky to start the game, long-foretold Bible prophecy came to pass right before their very eyes, causing many to suddenly vanish into thin air. Players disappeared! Coaches disappeared! Members of the media disappeared! Members of both marching bands disappeared! Cheerleaders disappeared, along with many fans in the stands…
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Hooks Can Be Deceiving
by Betty Hechtman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Molly Pink’s excitement level is off the hook: The Craftee Channel’s new cable talk show “Creating with Crochet” has scheduled an upcoming taping at the bookstore. While she’s there, TV host Rory Graham is to work with the Tarzana Hookers on a Make and Take bracelet project to draw bookstore customers to the yarn section. It’s a win-win…or so it “seams.”
The situation gets a bit knotted when channel producer Michael Kostner confides to Molly his concern that Rory may have oversold her ability as a crocheter. When the producer’s worst fears are realized, it’s up to Molly to make sure Rory comes through.
Rejectors
by Kyle Watson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
What would you do as last of the Rejectors? They are coming. Run.
Rejecting the system has a price, and the last rejectors are on the run and must outpace the evil forces that are hunting them. Vowing to never bend to the will of evil leader, will the rejectors be able to escape capture and avoid the delusion that overtakes those who are forced to accept the system?
Wrestling with the reality that the battle is taking place in both the seen and unseen realms, the rejectors will stop at nothing to fight for their souls and lives.
The Exchange
by Nadija Mujagic
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Sam has always dreamed of becoming an actress. But when she arrives in L.A., she quickly discovers that the path to fame and fortune is paved with danger and deception. With a dark secret in her past, Sam is desperate to escape her town and will do anything to make her dreams a reality.
When she meets Corey, a mysterious and charismatic man who promises to help her, Sam thinks she’s finally found the break she’s been looking for. But as events unfold, she realizes that Corey is not who he seems, and his true intentions are far more sinister than she could have ever imagined.
Glass Houses
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.
From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized.
The Fiercest Heart
by Sharon Sala
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Torn apart years ago by a family feud and a deadly accident, high school sweethearts Haley and Mack reunite when Haley returns to town. But someone doesn’t want them together and will do anything to keep them apart. Anything…
“This is reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet with a modern twist; two families who didn’t like each other, who had a son and daughter who fell in love. Of course something traumatic happens and they are separated, Haley Shore and Mack Brolin had plans, he was going to play college football then move straight to the NFL, Haley would stay home, go to a local college and wait for two years, so they could be together. Fate had other plans.” by Amazon Customer
The Case of the Missing Servant
by Tarquin Hall
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives—Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream – Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.
Warrior Saints – Creator
by Carla Thorne
Rating: 4.8 #ad
In the supernatural battle of good vs. evil, whose side are you on?
Strange days have come to the halls of Stonehaven Academy. From brutal fights in the supernatural realm with a demon-like presence, to battling obstacles in the halls at school, Mary knows she’s different. She just doesn’t understand why. Then it gets even weirder.
As her supernatural battles increase, she is drawn into friendships with others who seem to be as confused about their bizarre abilities and encounters as she is.
Now that Mary, Deacon, Scout, and Ivy have found each other, what is their purpose and why?
Alone at Dawn
by Dan Schilling
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The New York Times bestselling true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of twenty-three comrades-in-arms.
In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,469-foot peak of a mountain in eastern Afghanistan, a fierce battle raged. Outnumbered by Al Qaeda fighters, Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and a handful of Navy SEALs struggled to take the summit in a desperate bid to find a lost teammate.
Chapman, leading the charge, was gravely wounded in the initial assault. Believing he was dead, his SEAL leader ordered a retreat. Chapman regained consciousness alone, with the enemy closing in on three sides.
Taming a Seahorse
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A high-class New York madam hires Spenser to find a missing hooker, But when Spenser tracks down April Kyle, he uncovers the murder of yet another prostitute. Now Spenser is searching through a world of sex for sale. Because somewhere between Boston and a kinky Caribbean club, someone has a taste for young women, big money, and murder. . . .
The Good Guy
by James Leonard
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After returning home from the war, Porter Grayson and his wife had five beautiful weeks together before sickness took her.
Now all he wants is to be left alone. He’s happiest with his whiskey bottle.
When James Beaumont hires him to protect his sister and niece, Porter figures it’s an easy job for quick cash. He didn’t realize the Beaumonts were in a war all their own.
Stubbs McGee is the most infamous outlaw in the North. When he comes after the Beaumont girls, it’s a bloody battle that ends in the tragic kidnapping of nine-year-old Chrissy.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Scone Cold Dead
by Kaitlyn Dunnett
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A former Scottish dancer turned small-town shop owner must search for a killer among her former company in this cozy mystery by the author of Kilt Dead.
After a knee injury forces professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon to give up her life of performing strathspreys, reels, jigs and Highland flings she returns to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, where she runs a Scottish Emporium. With one solved murder case under her dance belt, Liss has no idea she’s about to spiral into another . . .
It Began With a Lie
by Michele PW
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An award-winning, gripping psychological suspense mystery. All Becca wanted was a fresh start. That wasn’t what she got.
Becca was sure the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin was exactly what her troubled family needed. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter.
But instead of a new beginning, Becca is thrust into a mysterious past she barely remembers. A past that includes the complications of interacting with her old teenage crush, Daniel, as well as living in her aunt’s old house.
Of Blood And Fire
by Ryan Cahill
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Born in fire. Tempered in blood.
Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North.
In the remote villages of southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving – a test of courage and skill that not all survive.
U is for Undertow
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sue Grafton takes the mystery genre to new heights with this twisting, complex #1 New York Times bestseller that draws private investigator Kinsey Millhone into a case shrouded in the sins of the past.
Looking solemn, Michael Sutton arrives in Kinsey Millhone’s office with a story to tell. When he was six, he says, he wandered into the woods and saw two men digging a hole. They claimed they were pirates, looking for buried treasure. Now, all these years later, the long-forgotten events have come back to him—and he has pieced them together with news reports from the time, becoming convinced that he witnesses the burial of a kidnapped child.
Messenger of Truth
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.5 #ad
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick’s twin sister, Georgina, a wartime journalist and a infamous figure in her own right, isn’t convinced.
When the authorities refuse to consider her theory that Nick was murdered, Georgina seeks out a fellow graduate from Girton College, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Nick was a veteran of World War I, and before long the case leads Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and into the sinister underbelly of the city’s art world.
The Bomb Maker
by Thomas Perry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is at first reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down. On his first day back at the head of the squad, Stahl’s three-person team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb. And it quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with an unusual mastermind—one whose intended target seems to be the Bomb Squad itself.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike.