Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Catered Halloween
by Isis Crawford
Rating: 4.3 #ad
With the promise of a hefty commission and some valuable word-of-mouth for their catering business, A Little Taste of Heaven, sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons agree to cater the charity haunted house being staged at the old Peabody School. But when wealthy socialite Amethyst Applegate is found dead in the haunted house, Bernie and Libby wonder if a murderer might also be lurking about Peabody’s gloomy halls…
While almost everyone Amethyst ever met might have a motive for killing her, not everyone had access to the Peabody School. All Bernie and Libby know is if they don’t solve this mystery soon, they might become the next stars in a real-life horror flick…
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(A Mystery With Recipes Mysteries)
Shadows Unveiled
by Amanda Berthault
Rating: 4.4 #ad
FINALIST IN 2022 CHICAGO WRITERS ASSOCIATION’S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS
A dark past will always linger no matter how deep it’s buried. Sometimes you can live with it. Sometimes it tries to kill you.
Heavy metal singer Shadow McKinley has faked his death to leave behind what he considers a torturous life. While disguised under his new identity as Shanley, a traveling pool hustler, he meets Macy, a teenage runaway and fan of his former band. Her plan to find her father in Los Angeles has fallen apart, and together they begin a cross-country road trip to get there.
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(The Shadows Trilogy)
Verity
by Colleen Hoover
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of the night her family was forever altered.
Caravan Courage
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
This time it involves a caravan freight wagon company, J.C. Holdings Co. The business founder, Jed Coburn, has been murdered by a disgruntled former worker named Flint Mattox. And now Jed’s daughter, Ruth, wants to find Mattox and bring him to justice. Evan is out to help the Coburn family after they previously saved the life of his brother Baxter.
Once again, it will take bravery and quick thinking for Dory and Evan to capture the thoroughly evil Mattox. Come ride along and experience first-hand what caravan freight wagons experienced as they helped to settle a frontier and supplied tens of thousands of people in the west.
1979
by Val McDermid
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and 1979 is ripe with possibilities.
But Allie is a woman in what is still a man’s world. Desperate to get away from the “women’s stories” the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies. First an international tax fraud, then a potential Scottish terrorist group aiming to cause mayhem ahead of an impending referendum. And then Danny is found murdered in his flat. For Allie, investigative journalism just got personal.
Don’t Call it a Cult
by Sarah Berman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. Through the accounts of central NXIVM figures, Berman uncovers how dozens of women seeking creative coaching and networking opportunities instead were blackmailed, literally branded, near-starved, and enslaved. Don’t Call It a Cult is a riveting account of NXIVM’s rise to power, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing!
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.
The Buried
by Sharon Bolton
Rating: 4.3 #ad
AN OLD ENEMY IS LAID TO REST . . . AND A NEW CRIME IS DISCOVERED
Florence Lovelady, the most senior serving policewoman in Britain, visits convicted serial killer Larry Glassbrook in prison. Larry is coming to the end of his life but has one last task for Florence: to learn the identity of the remains discovered at children’s home Black Moss Manor. The town Florence escaped narrowly with her life still holds many secrets. Will she finally learn the truth? Or will time run out for her first?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Music and Memories, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A murdered art teacher, a piano bar, and danger for Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth.
Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth, wants nothing more than a return to routine following their family vacation. The last thing she needs is to find herself involved in another murder investigation. But that’s precisely what happens when the victim is one of Maddie’s favorite teachers at the high school. While Sheridan’s trying not to sleuth, the high school principal assures everyone Sheridan will find the killer. Despite an abundance of people wanting to share their thoughts on the teacher, Sheridan and the police are stymied.
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Falling: Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
by VJ Dunn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nathan just wants to survive long enough to get his wife to safety. In a world reshaped by chaos and evil, it seems to be an impossible task.
Coming to grips with his own mortality was difficult enough, but coupled with a complete economic crash that sends the world spiraling into an abyss of doubt and fear, Nathan Diamond has no idea what to do next.
His best hope is to get his wife out of the city… and fast.
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(Saints of Salvation Mysteries)
Gallows Hill Academy Complete Boxed Set
by D.R. Perry
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Free bird? Don’t make me laugh.
I’m Mavis Merlini and I want out. Of my shady family, this rowdy school, maybe even the world.
My brother got kicked out of Gallows Hill School for inciting mermaid violence. I’m determined to cut out all distractions and be the first of my six siblings to actually graduate.
Will Mavis succeed in her goals? Grab this 9-book complete series boxed set to join the adventure with Mavis and friends!
The Moose Paradox
by Antti Tuomainen
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears – and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park’s equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio, with confusing demands. Why won’t Toy of Finland Ltd sell the new Moose Chute to Henri when he needs it as the park’s main attraction?
Meanwhile, Henri’s relationship with artist Laura has reached breaking point, and, in order to survive this new chaotic world, he must push every calculation to its limits, before it’s too late…
Fatal Witness
by Robert Bryndza
Rating: 4.5 #ad
How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence?
Detective Erika Foster is on a late-night walk near her new house in Blackheath when she stumbles upon the brutal murder of Vicky Clarke, a true-crime podcaster.
Erika is assigned to the case and discovers that Vicky had been working on a new podcast episode about a sexual predator who preys on young female students around South London, staking out his victims in their halls of residence before breaking in at the dead of night.
After the Flood
by Kassandra Montag
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water.
The Cobra in the Monkey Cage
by Anna Elliott
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A deadly day at the zoo . . .
A desperate appeal from Dr. Watson’s medical school classmate brings Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James to the London Zoo, where they encounter a mystery like no other. A monkey has been killed in a strange and sinister way, and it’s up to the Baker Street team to find out what really happened and uncover the true culprit. But what starts out as a curious case leads to a night of perilous adventure as the team races to keep a remarkably clever murderer from striking again . . .
Autism and Your Family Finances
by Tamara Hull
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The financial burden of autism is real. Many parents who have an autistic child struggle financially because not only do they have to pay out-of-pocket for more care and services for their child, but studies show they also tend to bring in less income. Yet, parents with autistic children can take control of their money, build wealth and secure their and their child’s future.
“Autism and Your Family Finances” provides you with a roadmap to make the most of your money and succeed financially. It focuses on important financial topics such as money mindset, debt payoff, budgeting, emergency funds, investing for retirement, and more. However, it also covers more specific topics that are especially important to parents of autistic children such as autism grants, special needs trusts, Social Security Income for their children, ABLE accounts, planning for their child’s future, and more.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Vampires and Villains
by Elizabeth Pantley
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Paige and her joyful Aunt Glo have learned that the home they inherited comes with a magical library. They put together a book club group of loveable kooks to explore the magic. They’ve recovered from their first book journey, and they all agree on their next book which takes place on a cruise ship bound for Hawaii. Problem is, they were so excited about the cruising idea that they didn’t read the entire blurb on the back of the book. (“It was entirely too long,” explains Zell.) Once on the ship, they meet a charming and likeable man who blends seamlessly into their motley group. Too bad they don’t know why he’s so scarce during the day but shows up to join them every evening for dinner, drinks, and a show.
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(Magical Mystery Book Club)
A Stranger in the Kingdom
by Howard Frank Mosher
Rating: 4.4 #ad
This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing” (The New York Times).
In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town’s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage—and is subsequently murdered—suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town’s accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done.
JULIA PRIMA
by Alison Morton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“You should have trusted me. You should have given me a choice.”
AD 370, Roman frontier province of Noricum. Staying faithful to the Roman gods in a Christian empire can be lethal. Half-divorced Julia Bacausa is condemned to an emotional desert and a forced marriage, Lucius Apulius barely clings onto his posting in a military backwater. Strongly drawn to each other, they are soon separated, but Julia is determined not to lose the only man she will love.
Neither wholly married nor wholly divorced, Julia is trapped in the power struggle between the Christian church and her pagan ruler father.
Tribune Lucius Apulius’s life is blighted by his determination not to convert to Christianity even to save his cherished career. Stripped of his command in Britannia, he’s demoted to the backwater of Noricum – and encounters Julia.
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(Roma Nova Thriller Series)
The Line
by Rachel Lynch
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The truth can have deadly consequences…
On a sunny morning, when the Mediterranean is dead calm, Captain Paul Thomas embarks on a dive to the wreck of the Zenobia, off the coast of Larnaca, Cyprus. Within hours, he has taken his final, gasping breath in an accident below the surface. A new Royal Military Police liaison is required to pick up on his work, and Major Helen Scott gets the assignment.
It turns out Paul Thomas had rattled cages during his current case – four serving soldiers are in custody accused of the leaking of state intelligence. If proven, the scandal would rock the foundation of the armed forces.
A Child Alone with Strangers
by Philip Fracassi
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods – using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone – there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.
The Line Between
by Tosca Lee
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Wynter Roth finally escapes from New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.
As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play: that the prophet they once idolized has been toying with the fate of mankind, and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.
The House of Wolves
by James Patterson, Mike Lupica
Rating: 4.9 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE at REGULAR PRICE
James Patterson and Mike Lupica are the thriller dream team! Jenny Wolf’s murdered father leaves her in charge of a billion-dollar empire—and a family more ruthless than Succession’s Roys and Yellowstone’s Duttons.
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf.
That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her. An unforgettable family drama by two writers at the top of their craft.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Holly Holmes Cozy Culinary Collection
by K.E. O’Connor
Rating: 4.5 #ad
With its stunning turrets and beautiful rose gardens, I always thought Audley Castle was perfect, set in the idyllic English village of Audley St. Mary. It’s a place I love to call home. But behind the trimmed hedgerows, stately gardens, and birdsong, a killer is waiting…
Book 1 – Cream Caramel & Murder
Book 2 – Chocolate Swirls & Murder
Book 3 – Vanilla Whip & Murder
Book 4 – Cherry Cream & Murder
World Without End
by Ken Follett
Rating: 4.7 #ad
World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroads of new ideas—about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race—the Black Death.
Red Mist
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out.
Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn more about a string of grisly killings: the murder of a Savannah family years earlier, a young woman on death row, and then other inexplicable deaths that begin to occur at a breathtaking pace..
The Jamie Austen Thrillers Boxset
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Award Winning Series. The addictive page turning saga of Jamie Austen and Alex Halee spy thrillers are available in boxset for the first time ever. (Books 1-5 in one collection.)
Action packed. Suspenseful. Fast paced. From Beginning to End. They must be good. They’ve been number #1 Amazon international best sellers in 10 different countries.
Book One: Save The Girls
Book Two: The Ingenue
Book Three: Saving Sara (Finalist 2021 Best Book Award Thriller/Suspense)
Book Four: Save The Queen
Book Five: No Girl Left Behind
Mastermind
by Andrew Mayne
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Dr. Theo Cray and FBI agent Jessica Blackwood confront a cataclysmic conspiracy in a pulse-quickening thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.
A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void…
Daughter of the Morning Star
by Craig Johnson
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.
When Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya “Longshot” Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire involved might draw some public attention to the girl’s plight, but with this maneuver she also inadvertently places the good sheriff in a one-on-one with the deadliest adversary he has ever faced in both this world and the next.
The Village
by Caroline Mitchell
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Ten years ago, the Harper family disappeared. Their deserted cottage was left with the water running, the television playing cartoons, the oven ready for baking. The doors were locked from the inside.
Overnight, the sleepy village of Nighbrook became notorious as the scene of the unsolved mystery of the decade, an epicentre for ghoulish media speculation.
For crime journalist Naomi, solving the case has turned into an obsession. So now, with Ivy Cottage finally listed for sale, it’s her chance to mount an investigation like no other. And her husband and stepdaughter don’t really need to know what happened in their new home… do they?
Revived and Rutted
by V.T. Bonds
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Stolen away from my idyllic life, I face horrors no living creature should ever have to suffer. At the hands of evil scientists, I find hell on Mai’CuS… as well as in the afterlife. If only they’d let me stay dead. Instead, they brought me back a completely different person.
One who won’t relent, not even when a gigantic, alien alpha with determined eyes and insistent claws demands my submission.
Will he break through my mania, or will my new fury destroy our chance at happily ever after?
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(Warrior Elite Mysteries)
Brightness Reef
by David Brin
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Centuries ago, the Buyur race abandoned Jijo. Now off-limits to settlers, it’s warded by guardian machines who will protect the planet until the Institutes of the Five Galaxies declare Jijo ready – in another million years – for new civilization.
But mere laws and guardians can’t keep out the desperate. Clandestine bands of “sooners” have sneaked down to the lonely planet. Six intelligent races—all refugees—have bickered . . . then built a new society in the wilds of Jijo, hidden beneath forest canopies. Together they live in harmony—and in fear of the day their illegal colony will be discovered and judgment from the Five Galaxies will rain down upon them.