Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Poisonous Page
by Kitt Crowe
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s summer festival time in Confection, Oregon, and that means a barrage of tourists making cash registers ring at Sweet Fiction Bookshop. But what should be bookseller Lexi’s most lucrative time of year turns disturbing when a member of the chamber of commerce suddenly dies of a heart attack. Not entirely unexpected—considering her family history—but it’s a different story when another chamber member dies just one week later…also, presumably, of natural causes.
Something about this doesn’t read right to Lexi. And it gets more unfathomable when her friend Dash—who dated both women – stands accused of murder!
Red Storm: Complete Series
by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Deep in Siberia, a plan was hatched…
…to restore Communism to its rightful place. Will Eastern Europe fold as they expect?
A sleeping giant is awake, but it’s not the one the world expects. The first spark hits a powder keg on the Black Sea, but this is only the beginning. Soon, dominos fall across Asia, and China will factor into a different type of war.
When bullets turn to bytes… will the allies be ready?
The Dark Door
by Lisa Unger
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pip Duke’s life has descended into chaos following the death of her father, a bestselling horror writer. She now hears voices all the time, saying troubling things like: Your father’s friends and family are after his money, or you shouldinherit everything. The voices also say she killed her dad, and the police are after her.
To silence these disturbing thoughts, Pip checks herself into an inpatient therapy center. However, the place is far from calming. She can’t trust the staff, and the voices in her head continue to say terrible things. There are those who want you released—only so they can continue to profit off your father’s name. A different voice says some wish to claim her inheritance by getting her declared insane…
The Wife List
by J.A. Schneider
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Has a group of men conspired to murder each other’s wives – figuring their perfect alibis will save them? That is what Beth Kemp starts to suspect, but is she losing her mind? Her husband says he fears so…
I’ll give this marriage one more try, Beth Kemp thinks. She is a successful crime writer in New York City, who regrets that tension has crept into her relationship with her husband, Brad. He too is a writer who, after early success, finds his career fading.
Brad urges that a move to the country would make them happy again – and safe, especially Beth, to avoid the city’s stress that triggers her severe asthma attacks. Beth wavers, until her close friend is murdered and the friend’s husband has a perfect alibi. She finally accepts that the city with its surging crime has become too hard for her…
The Heretic’s Apprentice
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is not a joyous occasion—he’s come back from his pilgrimage in a coffin. William’s body is accompanied by his young attendant Elave, whose mission is to secure a burial place for his master on the abbey grounds, despite William’s having once been reprimanded for heretical views.
An already difficult task is complicated when Elave drunkenly expresses his own heretical opinions, and capital charges are filed…
Death in the Off-Season
by Francine Mathews
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket’s oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Merry Folger is faced with her first murder case. Merry is the daughter of the local police chief and granddaughter of his predecessor; her father is a strict boss and Merry feels pressure to go the extra mile to prove her promotion to detective isn’t just nepotism.
But the Mason murder is a demanding first test. Merry’s investigation brings to light all the tensions that plague the tiny community of Nantucket: the decades-old grudges, the skyrocketing real estate that only wealthy weekenders can afford, the resentments of the old Nantucket families who are barely keeping their homes and heritage fishing businesses alive. But Merry knows the island and its politics in a way only a local can.
The Brave New World Collection
by Aldous Huxley
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic about a perfectly engineered society, and his book of essays reflecting on it almost three decades later, in one volume.
Brave New World: Half a millennium from now, no matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole, nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug soma.
Brave New World Revisited: Nearly thirty years after the publication of his groundbreaking novel, Huxley composed this collection of essays comparing the “future” of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Got Your Diamonds
by Julie Chase
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Grandeur and opulence are everything in the famed New Orleans Garden District where pets are family and no bling is too big. Opening Furry Godmother, pet boutique and organic treat bakery, is Lacy Marie Crocker’s dream come true—until the glitter gun used to make her Shih Tzu tutus becomes a murder weapon. And Lacy becomes public enemy #1.
Now Detective Jack Oliver is hounding Lacy, and her Furry Godmother investor wants out before his name is tarnished by association. To make matters worse, a string of jewel heists with suspicious ties to the murder case has New Orleans residents on edge…
Not, Not Guilty
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A killer is set free. Homicide Detective, Cliff Ford is blamed. The killer wins sixteen million dollars in a wrongful conviction lawsuit against the city of Chicago.
There are two more murders. Homicide Detective Cliff Ford thinks he knows who killed the victims. He’s wrong. The reader knows who did it all along. What follows is a breathtaking ride of twists and turns that best-selling and award-winning author, Terry Toler, is known for.
Will Cliff’s wife Julia set him straight or is he headed for another career disaster?
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(The Cliff Hangers Mysteries)
Killer, Come Back To Me
by Ray Bradbury
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Celebrating Ray Bradbury’s centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories — tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.
Time travelers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master’s less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called “one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written.”
A Storm Is Coming
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Their first mistake was leaving Storm for dead. Their second was threatening Lena. They won’t get the chance to make a third.
Storm Montgomery survived the war only to be shot in a field back home. When he comes to, his boss is dead, and Lena is in jail.
They say she killed her father, but Storm knows the truth, and he won’t let her hang for a crime she didn’t commit.
But when he tries to help, no one wants to listen. Now he and Lena are on the run, and they’ve only got one chance to set things right.
The Will and the Deed
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A shocking revelation in a diva’s will leads to murder in this chilling whodunit from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.
It’s not surprising that adored British opera star, Antonia Byrne, would want her death to be as dramatic as the roles she performed on the world’s great stages. Even so, the existence of a new will surprises everyone – especially the six loved ones gathered at her deathbed in Vienna.
When the mourners’ private plane is brought down by a blizzard, trapping them together in the Swiss Alps, they decide to unseal Antonia’s final testament rather than wait till they’re back home in England…
The Bullet That Missed
by Richard Osman
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case – their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
The Oracle of Delphi
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two missions, two hearts. Each is trying to save someone, but Perseus can only choose to help one. Where will his heart lead him?
The Demigod: Perseus, son of Zeus is on a mission to save his mortal mother’s life. He needs to behead the gorgon, Medusa, and deliver her head to the evil king of Seriphus or his mother will die. When he seeks the advice of the Oracle of Delphi, he ends up being tricked.
The Princess: Princess Andromeda was once thought to be the successor of the Oracle of Delphi. Now, she sits on the oracle’s throne over the pit of knowledge trying to get an answer for herself. She is to be sacrificed to the sea serpent in order to save her village.
Chased
by Anastasia Wilde
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Gabriel Sanchez has never wanted women at Outlaw Ridge. An expert tracker and operative, all he cares about is the mission. Women mean mates, and then cubs, and suddenly dedicated, focused soldiers turn into soft sappy romantics and Little League coaches.
Not him. No way.
Then Madison Fontaine comes to work at Outlaw Ridge, and suddenly all bets are off. Something inside her calls to his wolf—and no matter how much Sanchez might fight it, he can’t seem to stay away.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Dash of Death
by Michelle Hillen Klump
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Bad news for Samantha Warren: The plucky Houston, Texas, reporter lost her job and her fiancé in rapid succession. But Sam has a way of making lemonade out of the bitterest of lemons. At a meeting of the local historical-homes council, she serves up the homemade bitters that she made as gifts for her wedding party. She intends to use that as her “in” to become an in-demand party mixologist. But the party’s over for one of the council members, who keels over dead soon after he sips the bereft bride’s bitter brew.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Experience the Origin of a Prophet …
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.
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(Within & Without Time Mysteries)
The Nursing Home Murder
by Ngaio Marsh
Rating: 4.4 #ad
For one unfortunate British politician, murder is the worst medicine: “An ingenious, logical, and sparkling tale.” —The New York Times
For Member of Parliament Sir Derek O’Callaghan, a simple visit to the hospital proves fatal. But as Inspector Alleyn will discover, any number of people had reason to help the gentleman to his just reward, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals, in this classic of detection by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.
Deception, Denial & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A night out ends with a murder and awkward situations.
A domineering co-worker, a flirtatious neighbor, and a dead body make for many questions and awkward situations. As HR Specialist and trauma counselor, Stacie Maroni is used to dealing with difficult situations. When her night out is derailed by the discovery of a body outside a local watering hole, she’s glad she’s not involved. But when the police investigate and close friends are cast as potential suspects, Stacie will do whatever it takes to identify the true culprit, even if it creates waves with the men in her life, her father included. The suspect list is slim and she’s grasping at straws.
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(A Stacie Maroni Mysteries)
Special Agent Booker
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Suspense lights up on every page of this fast-paced blockbuster of thrills! When Sloan Booker’s father dies tragically, he has no other option but to give up his job as an FBI agent and take over his family’s vehicle restoration business in Oahu, Hawaii. Giving up his badge is difficult but having Homeland Security and his old boss request the use of his house in a stakeout, spying on his Muslim neighbors who they suspect are terrorists, is just too damn much for a man already frazzled. It makes no difference that they’ve offered him a partner to be in charge of the surveillance… until he meets the gorgeous divorcee.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
Unguilded
by Jane Glatt
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At sixteen Kara Fonti still has no magic. But Mage Guild, the most powerful of all the Guilds in Tregella, has a use for her – they will force her to bear children for men who do have magic. Arabella Fonti, to protect her own status within the guild, pushes her daughter to do the unthinkable – run away to live outside the guild system.
But unguilded are not welcome in Tregella, especially on the magical chain of islands of the capital Rillidi. In increasing danger of being arrested or killed, Kara finds refuge on Old Rillidi, the original island that was neither created by magic nor controlled by one of the guilds.
LOVE ME TO DEATH
by Steve Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson has revised and updated this classic true crime about one of the most monstrous serial killers in American history.
William Neal, who called himself “Wild Bill Cody,” was seductive and skillful at separating love-struck women from their money, and ultimately, their lives. Apprehended by police, Neal, who proclaimed himself “better than Ted Bundy,” pleaded guilty to three murders then insisted on representing himself at his death penalty trial. But the psychopathic killer found himself up against the incredible courage of his one surviving victim.
The Heroes
by Joe Abercrombie
Rating: 4.6 #ad
They say Black Dow’s killed more men than winter, and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they’ve brought a lot of sharpened metal with them.
DIEGO THE SMELLY DOG
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Ava is a feisty little girl who loves dogs and likes bandaids. One day a large old dog follows Ava and Gramps home. Ava’s mom won’t let her have a pet so she can’t keep him. But she does name him Diego. He is smelly. They take him to the rescue shelter the next day but Ava and Gramps visit him there every week. Who will give Diego a home? A heartwarming adoption story of unconditional love.
Redemption’s Call
by Kelsie Deschenes
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Widow Martha Patton has memories of a beautiful marriage cut short by the kidnapping of her daughter, and the mysterious murder of her Sheriff husband, Jonah. In the autumn of her life, Martha is living with their adopted son, Sheriff Tony, who she and Jonah gave a second chance and raised after he killed a man.
When Martha learns she has a cancer diagnosis, will she trust in God that even in brokenness, the Redemption of Christ has called her into a Perfect Plan? And will she keep to her resolve not to tell Tony about the cancer?
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Garden of Eden and
Other Criminal Delights
by Faye Kellerman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Kellerman delivers a riveting collection of 14 crime and mystery short stories–plus four bonus tales–compiled for the first time in one volume.
THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND OTHER CRIMINAL DELIGHTS marks the highly anticipated return of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus in three neverbefore- published short mysteries, including “The Garden of Eden,” where Peter and Rina investigate the death of a neighbor. The volume also contains two other Decker-Lazarus short mysteries: “Bull’s Eye,” introducing Cindy Decker, who works with her father to find the killer of a police academy instructor; and “A Woman of Mystery,” in which Rina and Peter solve the mystery of a student with amnesia…
The Last Lie Told
by Debra Webb
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Legal investigator Finley O’Sullivan searches for evidence the police overlooked, wading through secrets, lies, and betrayal to find answers. With the unsolved murder of her husband still very much on her mind, Finley must confront her own personal trauma on a daily basis. Lies are part of her livelihood, but they’re also the reason she can’t get justice for the man she loved.
When a man imprisoned for murder recants his confession, claiming he cleaned up the mess for his girlfriend—the victim’s own daughter—Finley takes on the case…
Fallen Shroud
by D. J. Dalton
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A deadly secret. A woman turning her visions tangible. An unbound magic battle …
Orlando, Florida. Keren Stewart longs to get on track. So despite constant intrusions from her imaginary elemental friends, the animation school hopeful is determined not to let talking to thin air ruin her chances. But her plans go sideways when her mother is hospitalized following a treacherous supernatural attack.
With her mom in possession of the book that bestows magical skills to humans, Keren is dumbstruck to discover they’re both under suspicion for connections to the villainous Dark Guild. And as she and her shifter buddies fight to clear her family name, she’ll have to learn to control her own powerful abilities before the truth about her birthright spells a bitter end…
The Watch Mysteries Collection
by Kay DiBianca
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three complete novels: The Watch on the Fencepost, Dead Man’s Watch, and Time After Tyme, from award-winning author Kay DiBianca.
The Watch on the Fencepost
Dead Man’s Watch
Time After Tyme
“The Watch Series is an awesome mystery series. I love the characters, and the mystery keeps twisting and turning until it wraps up to a fabulous conclusion.” – Amazon Reviewer
Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
by David Downing
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow’s son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he never should have written any of its contents down.
What Walter finds is a chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Josef Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant he’d said he was—he was a communist spy under Moscow’s command trying to reconnect with remaining members of Germany’s suppressed communist party…
Black Cherry Blues
by James Lee Burke
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, former Louisiana homicide cop Dave Robicheaux is trying to start a new life after the murder of his wife – but he can’t escape his past forever. Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he’s trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.
Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana would be safe – until two Native American activists suddenly go missing. When Robicheaux begins investigating, he is led into the dark world of the Mafia and oil companies. At the same time, someone from his past comes back to haunt him. Someone who was responsible for Robicheaux’s flight from New Orleans – someone who brutally murdered his wife – and now is after young Alafair…
Sea of Rust
by C. Robert Cargill
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built to serve them. Most of the world is controlled by an OWI—One World Intelligence—the shared consciousness of millions of robots, uploaded into one huge mainframe brain. But not all robots are willing to cede their individuality—their personality—for the sake of a greater, stronger, higher power. These intrepid resisters are outcasts; solo machines wandering among various underground outposts who have formed into an unruly civilization of rogue AIs in the wasteland that was once our world.
Doomed Legacy
by Matt Coyle
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Private investigator Rick Cahill has been running from his past and chasing the truth his whole life. But his past is relentless – and so is his CTE, a disease caused by repeated head traumas that has attacked his body and his mind. As his CTE progresses, he realizes that the disease not only threatens his life but also endangers his family’s wellbeing.
As Rick struggles to keep his family together, he does a favor for Sara Bhandari, a business contact. Then, Sara is murdered, and the police believe her to be yet another victim of a serial rapist who has been terrorizing greater San Diego. But Rick has reason to question their theory. Determined to find the truth at any cost, and against his wife’s warnings, he investigates on his own.