Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Neighbors
by Cynthia Hickey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Seems everyone has a dream and not enough funds. Someone is determined to kill for that dream. Will River Valley’s cast of colorful characters live to see another day? Can Marsha find out who the thief is before she becomes one of the sleep walkers?
When Marsha Calloway’s daughter is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, Marsha is determined to find the real culprit.
She enlists the help of her Cadillac-driving mama, the man who ditched Marsha at her high-school graduation but kept her heart, and a bumbling police officer. Folks around River Valley are having things disappear while they are sleeping with their eyes open.
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(A River Valley Mysteries)
Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors
by James Lovegrove
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A beautifully presented sinister seasonal mystery from the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon.
- The First Terror. At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch’s curse from over two hundred years earlier?
- The Second Terror. A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts?
- The Third Terror. A body is discovered in the dark woods near a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal, as the evidence suggests?
Chronicles of Winland Underwood Starter Pack
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Winland Underwood has been running and hiding most of her life. Today is the day she will stop and stand her ground.
Can she protect the magical refugees while searching for her mother? What other challenges await the Fixer’s daughter?
Grab the first two books of the Chronicles of Winland Underwood series today to find out!
An ancient mystery starts to unravel threatening their new town, and Winland must find it in herself to stay and fight it out.
Don’t Look Back
by Ben Cheetham
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head. Jacob was facedown on the tiled floor, arms outstretched to either side with blood pooling around his wrists. There was a faintly metallic butcher’s shop smell in the air…
After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for free in a breathtakingly beautiful mansion on the Cornish Lizard Peninsula. There’s just one catch – the house is supposedly haunted.
The Tome of Syyx
by Stavros Saristavros
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ancient evils stir. Deals must be brokered. But who can be trusted?
On the fringes of civilization, the town of Sanctuary embarks on a mission to legitimize its existence and that of its half-breed inhabitants.
Tasked with helping secure the future of the town, four young adventurers soon discover that armies of orcs and hobgoblins are far from the only threats to peace on the frontier. Dragons are rumored to once again fly, and an imprisoned god returns to plague the world.
What hopes do they have in the face of such foes?
Perfect Storm 4
by Bobby Akart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Perfect Storm arrived. The power grid was destroyed. Society collapsed and anarchy rose. Can courage and the love of family ensure survival?
International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to over a million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.
The Perfect Storm, a natural disaster caused by the sun, resulted in the collapse of America’s vulnerable power grid. When two successive blasts from the sun slammed into each other, they forged a Perfect Storm so intense that our planet’s magnetic field was no match for its fury.
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(Perfect Storm Mysteries)
Pastime
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker’s electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction–a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father’s rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother’s sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.
This time, it’s more than a routine search for a missing person–Spenser must search his own soul…
Long Distance Hero
by Jo Grafford
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a cowboy finally meets THE ONE, and his feelings are immediately put to the test by a long-distance relationship…
Farmer and agricultural pilot Nash Wilder has waited a long time for someone like Kenzie Malone to come along. Her fun and outspoken personality is the perfect fit for his outrageous brand of humor. Never before has anyone been able to dish it back the way she can. It’s way too bad she’s in the middle of a job transfer back to New York.
He asks her to be his long-distance girlfriend, not realizing her ex is already scheming to win her back. Yeah, Nash understands the All’s Fair in Love and War rule, but this guy is pushing some pretty big boundaries, including the legal ones.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Empty Promises and Crowded Caskets
by Ana Bisset
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A stolen story. A secret source. An extra body. Can our psychic sleuth find the murderer before she’s the next victim? Libby Foster is an investigative journalist. After her dead-beat boyfriend steals her latest scoop, she quits her job at the Boston Gazette and moves back home to Black Ridge Cove, Maine.
Her day only gets worse when a ghost runs right through her, she witnesses an explosion that may have been caused by her mystical BFFs, and there are one too many bodies in the casket at the memorial for a founding family member. Nobody seems to know how ‘that guy’ got there, only that he has been murdered.
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(A Libby Foster Cozy Mysteries)
You Belong To Me
by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself—and those closest to her—to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against.
Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor.
Nanostealth: A Three-Book Boxed Set
by Vikki Kestell
Rating: 5.0 #ad
An amiable scientist, a ruthless drug dealer, a vulnerable boy, a poisonous sister, and a guy with a dark past. Throw in an unemployed woman who knows too much, and you have one of the most unusual and intriguing books you will ever read. Own the first three full-length novels in the award-winning series, Nanostealth, available for the first time in a single eBook volume.
Book 1: Stealthy Steps
Book 2: Stealth Power
Book 3: Stealth Retribution
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(Nanostealth Mysteries)
Survivor In Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Lieutenant Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city – not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal – but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night vision to find their way through the cozy middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is dealing with pros. The only mistake they made was to overlook the nine-year-old girl cowering in the dark in the kitchen…
The Undoing
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended.
Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them.
Love and Other Unknown Variables
by Shannon Lee Alexander
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he’ll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover solutions to the universe’s greatest unanswered questions. He’s that smart. But Charlie’s future blurs the moment he reaches out to touch the tattoo on a beautiful girl’s neck. The future has never seemed very kind to Charlotte Finch, so she’s counting on the present. She’s not impressed by the strange boy at the donut shop – until she learns he’s a student at Brighton where her sister has just taken a job as the English teacher. With her encouragement, Charlie orchestrates the most effective prank campaign in Brighton history.
Night Terrors Vol. 24
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Turn page after page of relentless terror…
An old piece of pottery holds an ancient evil within, until a man and his daughter unwittingly release it into the world. A private chauffeur picks up a very strange passenger, who reveals something terrifying lurking along the dark night roads, just out of sight. And justice hunts down a terrified man, when he discovers his ancestor may have committed a gruesome crime…
Scare Street is proud to present fourteen diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly page unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Colebridge Quilted Christmas
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The holiday spirit brings healing and hope to flower shop owner Anne Brown and her quilting friends – just when they need it the most.
Enjoy Christmas in Colebridge in the final installment of Ann Hazelwood’s Colebridge Community Series. Main street is busy with the Mistletoe Market and the quilt show in the depot. Folks in Colebridge help one another, especially at Christmas. Through love and loss, the townspeople are sewn together. The layers of their lives, like quilts, blend as one through appreciation of the community that binds them; not just in Colebridge, but in their hearts.
Mirror Mirror
by Allison Brennan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone has a breaking point …
Jackie Regan broke the cycle of violence as a young teen when she turned her abusive father over to the police. Now, a detective in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, Jackie has dedicated her life to helping those who can’t help themselves.
The Becker family is just one in a long-line of cases Jackie is working. She fears that history will repeat itself, and sees herself in their young daughter who is witness to her parents constant fighting.
Before She Was Helen
by Caroline B. Cooney
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the critically acclaimed, international bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney comes a domestic thriller perfect for fans of mystery books by Laura Lippman and Alice Feeney.
Her life didn’t turn out the way she expected—so she made herself a new one
When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn’t there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it. As the picture swirls over the internet, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets. Can fifty years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture?
SCI-FI Boxed Set
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
This meticulously edited and formatted SF collection, jam-packed with the dystopian worlds, intergalactic action-adventures, and the greatest Sci-Fi classics
More than I can read in a year, for a pittance too. Lots of classic sci-fi, something for every taste–a lot of titles one might never read otherwise. I use my tablet to read when I’m traveling and want to take a break from the real, awful world. Stories are well chosen.
Second Watch
by J. A. Jance
Rating: 4.6 #ad
With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont.
Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he’s ever faced.
Death at Whitewater Church
by Andrea Carter
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A missing groom – a deconsecrated church – a hidden crypt – a skeleton wrapped in a blanket
When a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previously. But the postmortem reveals otherwise.
Solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church. She is reluctant to get involved, but when Conor’s brother dies in strange circumstances shortly after coming to see her, she finds herself drawn into the mystery. Whose is the skeleton in the crypt and how did it get there? Is Conor Devitt still alive, and if so, is there a link? What happened on the morning of his wedding to make him disappear?
The Boy From Block 66
by Limor Regev
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66.
January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen more than his share of tragedy.
Moshe knows only one thing about Buchenwald. Everyone knows it.
Secrets of Skin and Stone
by Wendy Sparrow
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Something is wrong in Hidden Creek. The sleepy Alabama town is more haunted than any place fiend hunter Grisham Caso has ever seen. Unearthed graves, curse bags, and spilled blood all point to an evil that could destroy his gargoyle birthright. The town isn’t safe for anyone, and everyone says fiery Piper Devon knows why.
Piper wants to leave Hidden Creek behind. She’s had enough of secrets—they hide in the shadows of her room and tell her terrible things are coming. Too-charming city boy Grisham might be her only chance to save herself.
Fury of Frustration
by Coreene Callahan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ambition can be deadly…
Born of a powerful god, but exiled on earth, dragon-warrior Kruger conceals the truth of his origins from the world. Forced to live a lie, he proves his worth by becoming a tycoon in a powerful business empire. But when a beautiful woman with ambitions of her own gets in his way, he must accept what he cannot change, or eliminate the threat once and for all.
Haunted by ghosts, Ferguson McGilvery needs out. Out from under her step-father’s thumb. Out of the toxic whirlwind her step-brothers create. Out of the country, far away from the dysfunction that has overtaken her life. When a surprise inheritance sends her to the Scottish Highlands, she clashes with Kruger, a man so infuriating she’ll do anything to foil his attempts to make her leave.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death at the Auction
by E. C. Bateman
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Murder stalks the cobbles in England’s finest Georgian town…
When an accident forces Felicia Grant back to her family’s auction house in Stamford, she vows it’ll only be a flying visit. But as the gavel falls on the final lot, a hidden secret is revealed—the body of her father’s business rival, murdered during the packed sale!
Soon, Felicia is swept into a mystery that has everyone in the community as a potential suspect―including her.
The Wrong Key
by AJ Campbell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When her US work colleague is involved in a serious car accident, London-based Steph Knight is sent to New York to provide cover. After her recent divorce, it’s the perfect opportunity for a fresh start and for Steph to spend some time with her teenage daughter, Ellie, a gifted musician, before she leaves for university.
Soon after arriving, Steph meets Edward, a corporate lawyer, who leads Ellie to bartender Jack, a bioethics student on his summer break. As both relationships intensify, Steph begins to uncover a web of corruption within her company that seemingly reaches right to the top. Feeling increasingly threatened, she has no idea who she can trust. Not even the men they’ve fallen for are beyond suspicion.
A Killing of Innocents
by Deborah Crombie
Rating: #ad
On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London’s historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they discover that she’s been stabbed.
Kincaid immediately calls in his detective wife, Gemma James, who has recently been assigned to a task force on knife crimes which are on the rise. Along with her partner, detective sergeant Melody Talbot, Gemma aids the investigation.
The Black & Blue Butterfly Tattoo
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When an ill-advised sexual liaison with an unstable associate leads to lies and harassment, threatening to unravel his marriage, family and practice, Dr. Ferrell makes a cowardly decision to hide the affair from his ailing wife.
Unfortunately, affairs are messy and rarely remain hidden. When his former lover is found murdered, Dr. Ferrell becomes the target of a police investigation, has his life threatened by a stranger, and starts to believe that his wife may already know more than she is saying.
As the list of suspects dwindle, and the finger of guilt begins to point in Dr. Ferrell’s direction, he is faced with the ethical dilemma of breaking his doctor-patient confidentially in order to expose one of his patients, who may be involved in the murder.
Protected By The Damned Complete Series
by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
** AMAZON Top 100 Bestselling Author **
Katie Maddison never wanted to learn how to kick a demon’s ass, all she was doing was helping a fellow university student with his Chem homework.
She just trusted people too much.
Now, she will be the new weapon in a war she had no idea existed with warriors wielding both weapons and supernatural abilities.
Demon Hunters, Demon Fighters … Known as The Damned.
Remember Me
by Sharon Sala
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Clay and Frankie LeGrand are deliriously happy newlyweds until the day Frankie inexplicably disappears. The local police suspect Clay had something to do with it—but they can’t prove anything. Two years go by and then, as suddenly as she disappeared, Frankie is back in bed exactly where Clay last saw her, as though nothing ever happened.
There are sinister clues: a tattoo on Frankie’s neck, needle marks on her arm, and a powerful man who has been trying to control her since childhood…
Murder Book
by Thomas Perry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
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When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization—but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him fifteen years earlier, and to her, he can’t say no.
Initially brought in as a consultant to determine if the racketeering is severe enough to require an all-out investigation by the FBI, Duncan quickly finds himself in conflict with a syndicate far more violent than first suspected. As the investigation develops, he begins compiling a “murder book,” the notebook in which a detective keeps records, interviews, photos—everything he needs to build his case. But his scrutiny of the gang soon makes Duncan a target. And Ellen, too.