Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sparks and Landmarks
by Trixie Silvertale
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A suspicious fire. A Valentine’s Day discovery. Will this psychic sleuth gamble – and lose? Mitzy Moon’s clairvoyant abilities are growing, but she never predicted arson. After waking to a towering inferno and loading her mentor into an ambulance, she thought things couldn’t get worse. But when the sheriff links her father to the blaze, she’s forced to take the case.
Coming up empty on love and leads pushes Mitzy to unnecessary risks. Now her otherworldly helpers, a nosy Ghost-ma and a fiendish feline, are the only ones who can save her bacon…
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(Mitzy Moon Mysteries)
Picture You Dead
by Peter James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace finds himself plunged into an unfamiliar and rarefied world of fine art. Outwardly it appears respectable, gentlemanly, above reproach. But beneath the veneer, he rapidly finds that greed, deception and violence walk hand-in-hand.
Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale.
It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true – until the day it did…
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(Roy Grace Mysteries)
Tomb of Malevolent Evil Complete Boxed Set
by Kevin Mclaughlin, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Game night will never be the same again for Terry, Jewel, Mandy, and Morgan.
The role-playing gamers thought they were getting together for a gaming session. Now they’ve been summoned into another reality.
A reality that is dangerous and deadly to them. Here they can’t just roll a new character and keep playing.
Get the complete series and join the gamer crew as they Roll For Initiative.
The reality they’ve been summoned to looks and feels an awful lot like the games they’re used to playing.
But this is no game, and the Power that brought them here has plunged the players into a life or death battle. They must defeat their enemies and escape the dungeon, or die trying.
When the game becomes all too real, it’s time to roll the dice and play for keeps.
Two Steps Forward
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray expects the unexpected.
Just not this time. Just not this way. Just not on his honeymoon.
An unexpected encounter in Morocco . . .Titus and Nikki begin their new life together in a church ceremony in Norman, Oklahoma and immediately fly to Marrakesh, Morocco for their honeymoon. Then, the unexpected happens, and Titus has an encounter with Jihadi terrorist Baran Asan.
An unexpected discovery in Israel . . . Cutting their honeymoon short, Titus and Nikki head over to Israel to search for their foster child’s grandmother, but then an unexpected discovery leads to a second sighting of Baran Asan and reveals disturbing news about a planned assassination in Iraq.
An unexpected assassination in Iraq . . .
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(Titus Ray Thrillers)
Kalendra Chronicles Four Book Boxed set
by Barbara Ferrier
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A girl born beneath three moons. A magical land under threat. Can she stop the end of everything?
Tahendra can’t let a puzzle go unsolved. So when the intuitive seventeen-year-old and her bestie find a mysterious journal floating in a closet, she’s determined to get answers from her pal’s estranged uncle. And after discovering the old man is a frequent traveler into another world, she enthusiastically leads her crew through a portal to a bewitched kingdom.
Meeting a powerful wizard who turns out to be her relative, Tahendra is astonished to learn she’s from the enchanted realm and has an important destiny. But no sooner have she and her friends begun enchantment/sorcery training than a poisonous assassination attempt leaves her life hanging by a thread.
Will Tahendra survive long enough to master her abilities and save an ancient magic?
What She Found
by Robert Dugoni
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the past in a pulse-pounding novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Solving the cold case is an obsession for Lisa’s daughter, Anita. So is clearing the name of her father, a prime suspect who became a pariah. After twenty-five years, all Anita wants is the truth—no matter where it leads.
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(Tracy Crosswhite Mysteries)
Diablo Mesa
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the past in a pulse-pounding novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Solving the cold case is an obsession for Lisa’s daughter, Anita. So is clearing the name of her father, a prime suspect who became a pariah. After twenty-five years, all Anita wants is the truth—no matter where it leads.
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(Nora Kelly Mysteries)
Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable…
Abandoning Rand’s war against the Dark One, Perrin Aybara has made his own truce with the Seanchan in his obsessive quest to save his wife Faile from the Shaido and destroy their mutual enemies. To achieve victory, Perrin must render the Shaido Wise One channelers in Malden powerless. But even as he puts his desperate plan into action, Masema Dagar, the Prophet of the Dragon, moves against him.
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(Wheel of Time Mysteries)
Waverunner
by LJ Peace
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release from LJ Peace
Kids! Sail the high seas to adventure with WAVERUNNER. Meet the Skipper and Jedediah, two men who walk in step with the Holy Spirit. There will be plenty of action and surprises along the way.
Did someone say PIRATES? Yes! And these pirates are definitely out-of-this-world. Thank goodness Jed and the Skipper know all about the Fruit of the Spirit.
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(My Kind of Kitten)
Hour Game
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal’s motives…or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man’s innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family.
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(King & Maxwell Mysteries)
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Cupcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 4.4 #ad
While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa’s waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michelle’s love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah’s advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she’s not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned storefront two doors down from Hannah’s bakery . . .
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(A Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
The Secrets We Keep
by A J Wills
Rating: 4.1 #ad
With every passing minute, hopes of finding Annie Warren alive are fading fast. The ten-year-old should have been home from school hours ago and her parents, Cathy and Kit, are frantic with worry.
The police seem completely clueless while the Warrens’ house is besieged by a news-hungry press pack.
Among them is Yannick Kellor, an ambitious TV reporter who’s spotted an opportunity to make name for himself. But that’s not his only reason for wanting to solve the mystery of Annie’s disappearance.
Vampire Librarian
by Kristin Kova
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Save London from an impending vampire apocalypse? Sorry, my week is all booked.
That’s a book pun—I’m a librarian. Specifically, the arcane archivist at the Witching Library in the heart of London.
Humans don’t know about the secret magical world of witches, shifters, and seers like me. So when vampires steal a dark codex from the library, no police come to save me when I’m caught in the crossfire. I’m left in a pool of blood, with a searing scratch on my arm.
When I transition and lose control of my new thirst, a dangerously powerful—and hot as hell—vampire pulls me back from the edge.
The Usual Santas Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more.
This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.
New Castle’s Kadunce Murders
by Dale Richard Perelman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Author Dale Richard Perelman tells the tragic story of the 1978 murders and the mystery surrounding them.
In the summer of 1978, a mother and her four-year-old were stabbed to death in the quiet town of New Castle. Police suspected the husband, Lou Kadunce, but were unable to find either a weapon or a motive. Sitting in a Lawrence County jail in 1981, convicted serial killer Michael Atkinson accused Frank Costal – a carny, petty thief and Satanist – of having an affair with the Kadunce husband and participating in the murder. A series of intense trials ensued as Costal was convicted of the homicides and a jury found the husband not guilty. Questions surrounding the case gripped the region and grabbed headlines in the Pittsburgh Press.
Dory Returns
by William Black
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s 1869 in the New Mexico Territory and the frontier legend of Dory McLee is only growing. The farm girl is as skilled at riding, shooting and chasing criminals as much as her male counterparts.
Back east, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, know about Dory thanks to the sensationalized dime books and pamphlets, yelling out her western moxie. Their stories, including the taming of a grizzly bear, may be exaggerated. Yet people have become enchanted with the young woman.
Funeral for a Friend
by Brian Freeman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jonathan Stride’s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve’s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull.
Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is. Seven years ago, an out-of-town reporter disappeared while investigating anonymous allegations of rape against a prominent politician. Back then, the police believed that the reporter drowned at a dangerous swimming hole called the Deeps … but the discovery of the body changes everything. Now Stride’s partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask Stride an uncomfortable question: Did you kill him?
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(The Jonathan Stride Mysteries)
Niergel Chronicles – Quest
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Niergel Chronicles – Quest continues the fantastic adventures of Jeff Sutherland, a brilliant young scientist who encounters a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
Dangerous enemies are stepping up their attacks as dark forces grow increasingly threatened by our hero’s discoveries. He is, meanwhile, drawn more deeply into his search for the truth about his heritage and the earth’s past.
Book Two, Quest is the story of Jeff’s soul-stirring pursuit of truth. Not just the truth about his lost family but also the most extraordinary reality of all. One that upends everything he ever believed, as he realizes that it is the only defense against the dark forces who now threaten the entire world.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Shifting and Shenanigans
by Elizabeth Pantley
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Paige and her adventurous Aunt Glo inherit a country inn from eccentric GeeGee. They pack up and hit the road, arriving at the charming place they both loved since childhood. Finally! They can get into the secret room in the basement that GeeGee kept locked! They discover it’s a wonderful library filled to the brim with mystery books. But more than the room was a secret – it’s a magical place that houses enchanted books. Paige and Glo find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a murder mystery, along with a motley group of book club friends.
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(Magical Mystery Book)
A Strike to the Heart
by Danielle Grandinetti
Rating: 4.4 #ad
She’s fiercely independent. He’s determined to protect her.
Wisconsin, 1933—When a routine mission becomes an ambush that kills his team, Craft Agency sniper Miles Wright determines to find the persons responsible and protect the woman he rescued. But the fierce independence that led Lily Moore to leave her family’s dairy business for the solitary life of a dog trainer and the isolation of her farm don’t make that easy. Neither does his unwanted attraction to her. Meanwhile, escalating incidents confirm that she’s far from safe.
Lily fears letting the surprisingly gentle retired marine into her life almost as much as she fears whoever is threatening her.
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(Strike to the Heart Series)
Half-Told Truths
by Amy O. Lewis
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kim Jackson is starting to get used to life on the run. In Durango, Colorado, she has found work as a part-time bookkeeper and as a live-in housekeeper for Lena Fallon, an ex-cop paralyzed in the line of duty. Kim’s old life as a corporate accountant—when she was framed for murder and forced to go on the run—feels far away until someone from her past spots her in the tourist town. Too soon, danger comes to her doorstep, reminding her that she can’t be safe while the man who set her up remains free.
Kim’s housemate and boss, Lena, is no stranger to the dark side of humanity. Lena is still reeling from the unsolved crime that ended her law enforcement career. She doesn’t give a damn about her latest housekeeper, until she senses Kim is hiding something.
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(Colorado Skies Series)
A Fools Quest To Moon Water
by Gary Diamond
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moon Water, an Apache legend, where supposedly, they have a cave of gold. Some women and children, white captives, are also held at Moon Water.
But where is Moon Water? Does it really exist? One white man has been there and was allowed to leave. Ethan Garrett.
The year is 1865, the last few weeks of the American Civil War. A Confederate troop steal a consignment of Union gold and attempt to take it across the border to Mexico. They are stopped by the Apache and most of the people, including civilians, from a wagon train are butchered. White captives are taken and the Confederate captain is blindfolded and taken to Moon Water, along with the stolen gold. Somehow the captain escapes; the white captives are not so lucky…
The Terminal List
by Jack Carr
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller that is “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written—rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.
The Family at No. 12
by Anita Waller
Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The explosive new thriller from international bestseller Anita Waller.
When Janette answers the door to a potential customer looking to board his dog, she never imagines he has nefarious plans. But minutes later he’s dead and in her cellar.
Weeks later she realizes she’s pregnant. And so she becomes Mother and the baby Child, and a hidden life begins. But all secrets come out eventually . . .
Lost Gods
by Brom
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom.
Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . . .
Snared and murdered by a vile, arcane horror, Chet quickly learns that pain and death are not unique to the living. Now the lives and very souls of his wife and unborn child are at stake.
Tidal Falls
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Great book! This is a suspense/romance that will keep you on your toes as well as touch your heart! by Barb
ALL SHE WANTS IS TO LIVE HER LIFE Abused, Sara Sheridan finds the courage to escape her husband. She has no interest in getting mixed up with another alpha, attitude-laden male. Especially with her ex hot on her trail.
ALL HE CRAVES IS PEACE AND QUIET Marine, Nick Kelley prefers solitude, away from the memories haunting him. So what is it about his reticent neighbor and her child that tempts him to give it up?
UNTIL LOVE GETS IN THE WAY
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(Wounded Hearts Series)
Dopesick
by Beth Macy
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Journalist Beth Macy’s definitive account of America’s opioid epidemic “masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference” (New York Times) – from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor’s offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
My Kind of Kitten
by LJ Peace
Rating: Brand New release #ad
Kids! MY KIND OF KITTEN is about an imaginative girl named Crissy, who finds adventure each summer in the very special town of Cliffside. She will have to be brave to face a very mean vulture named Buzz.
Join Crissy as she learns about anger, pride, envy, and love-in-action. She will also need to sort out her relationship with a moody, selfish friend.
Warning. Crissy has a very active imagination. In her make-believe worlds, she faces train robbers, space pirates, and a lava monster. She must also stand up against a very real, unfriendly vulture who could be a little frightening to sensitive people.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery Novels Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After the mysterious death of her mafia “made man” husband, Carlita Garlucci makes a shocking discovery. Follow the Garlucci family saga as Carlita and her daughter try to escape their NY mob ties and make a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia. They soon realize you can run but can’t hide from your past.
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels from bestselling author Hope Callaghan’s “Made in Savannah Mystery Series.”
If you like family sagas and clean cozy mysteries that keep you guessing till the end, you’ll love the Made in Savannah Mystery Series!”
After the mysterious death of her mafia “made man” husband, Carlita Garlucci makes a shocking discovery. Follow the Garlucci family saga as Carlita and her daughter try to escape their NY mob ties and make a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia. They soon realize you can run but can’t hide from your past.
If you like family sagas and clean cozy mysteries that keep you guessing till the end, you’ll love the Made in Savannah Mystery Series!”
BONUS: RECIPES INCLUDED!
House
by Frank Peretti
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Sinner.
Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti – two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers – have joined forces for the first time with this non-stop thrill ride. Enter House – where you’ll find yourself thrown into a killer’s deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose . . . and the only way out is in.
One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn.
Murder up to Bat
by Elizabeth McKenna
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mystery with a whiff of romance…
After falling in love with the quiet lake life and a certain police detective, former Chicago Tribune reporter Emma Moore trades interviewing jocks for chasing champion cows at the county fair. As a small-town newspaper reporter, she covers local topics both big and small, but when her friend Luke is arrested for the murder of the head coach of his club softball team, she’ll need to hone her investigative skills to clear his name. Emma calls up best friend Grace for help, and together the women go up against cutthroat parents willing to kill for a chance to get their daughters onto a premier college sports team.
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(A Front Page Mysteries)
Defending Britta Stein
by Ronald H. Balson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Defending Britta Stein is a story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption – from Ronald H. Balson, the winner of the National Jewish Book Award
Chicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II – most consider him a hero.
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(Liam Taggart and Catherine Lockhart Mysteries)
The Darkest Place
by Phillip Margolin
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Defense attorney Robin Lockwood faces an unimaginable personal disaster and her greatest professional challenge in the next New York Times bestselling Phillip Margolin’s new legal thriller, The Darkest Place.
Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she’s becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn’t know – what she can’t know – is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete devastation on her life and plans.
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(A Robin Lockwood Mysteries)
The Last Astronaut
by David Wellington
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Sally Jansen was NASA’s leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over. She’s wrong.
A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate. Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. But as the object reveals its secrets, Jansen and her crew find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival — against the cold vacuum of space, and something far, far worse…
A World of Curiosities
by Louise Penny
Rating: BRAND NEW RELEASE #ad
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end?
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(Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries)
The Girl from Oto
by Amy Maroney
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two women. Separated by centuries. Linked by a 500-year-old mystery…
1500: Born during a time wracked by war and plague, Renaissance-era artist Mira de Oto grows up in a Pyrenees convent believing she is an orphan. When tragedy strikes, Mira learns the devastating truth about her own origins. But does she have the strength to face those who would destroy her?
2015: Centuries later, art scholar Zari Durrell unearths traces of a mysterious young woman named Mira in two 16th-century portraits. Obsessed, Zari tracks Mira through the great cities of Europe to the pilgrim’s route of Camino de Santiago – and is stunned by what she finds. Will her discovery be enough to bring Mira’s story to life?
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(The Miramonde Mysteries)
Where Dandelions Sway
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.3 #ad
My name is Paul. About a year ago, I moved my family to the country for some peace of mind and security. I love them and would do anything in my power to protect them. They think I have a temper. A bad temper. Maybe I do. Three armed men are in our home right this very moment holding us hostage. My wife and children are shaken to the core. The last thing I ever expected was intruders in my own home. The last thing they ever expected was me.
On a Friday afternoon in the small town of Glen Ridge, three armed men invade the home of Paul and Alexis Hudson. The Hudson’s find themselves in a life or death situation where tempers flare, demands soar and repercussions loom. On the surface, the invasion appears to be a simple robbery. Until one of the assailants demands a mysterious safe. Nothing is as it seems.