Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Anastasia Pollack Crafting: Books 7-8
by Lois Winston
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Drop Dead Ornaments: Alex and Sophie beg Anastasia to find the real killer, but Anastasia has had her fill of dead bodies. She’s also not convinced of Shane’s innocence. Besides, she’s promised younger son Nick she’ll stop risking her life. But how can she say no to Alex?
Handmade Ho-Ho Homicide: The next morning Anastasia once again heads to his house before work to drop them off. When she arrives, she discovers Ira’s attacker dead in Santa’s sleigh. Ira becomes the prime suspect in the man’s murder and begs Anastasia to help clear his name…
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(Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries)
Dead Man’s Watch
by Kay DiBianca
Rating: 4.5 #ad
SAVING ONE LIFE IS LIKE SAVING THE WHOLE WORLD
Half-sisters Kathryn Frasier and Cece Goldman stumble into another mystery in this second book in the Watch series. When a former acquaintance of Kathryn’s is accused of murder, she and Cece go on a mission to prove his innocence by finding the real killer. But things are never what they seem in this tangled web, and Kathryn’s spunky determination to solve the mystery pushes her closer and closer to a deadly climax.
Join the adventure as these two young women commit themselves to live up to the quote from the Jerusalem Talmud: “Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”
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(The Watch Mysteries)
The Wolf Gift
by Anne Rice
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Reuben Golding, a young reporter on assignment, arrives at a secluded mansion on a bluff high above the Pacific, it’s at the behest of the home’s enigmatic female owner. She quickly seduces him, but their idyllic night is shattered by violence when the man is inexplicably attacked – bitten – by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness. It will set in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation that will propel Reuben into a mysterious new world and raise profound questions. Why has he been given the wolf gift? What is its true nature—good or evil? And are there others out there like him?
Brazen Planet
by Gayle Katz
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A government secret threatens all life on Earth. Can one scientist get off the ground to save humanity and herself before doomsday?
Charlotte Miller never backs down from a challenge. Haunted by her astronaut mother’s disappearance on a decades-old exploratory mission to Venus, the distraught scientist will do anything to find out what happened to her. When data surfaces that points to a global calamity, Charlotte is desperate to follow in her mom’s footsteps to solve both mysteries.
Taking matters into her own hands, Charlotte accepts a top-secret presidential assignment to track down her mother. Partnered up with experts to save the global population, she hopes to find a new home before the deep state stops her and humanity is rendered extinct.
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(Tears of Venus Mysteries)
Shadow Game
by Shawna Coleing
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Morgan Caine spent three years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit before being acquitted, but that doesn’t mean she’s innocent. While trying to rebuild her life, she takes a gamble and hacks into a computer network, stumbling across an assassination plot in the process. But despite the possible risks, she refuses to sit back and let a man die, even if he represents everything she’s never had.
But Oliver Wright is not the man she thinks he is, and her good deed traps her in a conspiracy that forces her to question everything she’s known to be true and reveals to both of them that they have more in common than they first realized.
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(Shadow Alliance Mysteries)
Celtic Empire
by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. . . A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. . . An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. . . Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago.
During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds himself embroiled in an international mystery, one that will lead him across the world and which will threaten everyone and everything he knows–most importantly, his own family.
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(Dirk Pitt Adventure Mysteries)
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. It’s an inside look into the day-to-day challenges facing not only the patient, but also the caregivers. For many years, her father exhibited signs of dementia, eventually becoming too significant to ignore. Everything culminated during an incident one night, after which her father was taken away, never to return to his home again. The disease changed him every day until he was a stranger. Then, it stole his life.
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it…
HOTEL OBSCURE
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In a run-down neighborhood in an unnamed city, people live and die in “the Obscure.”
Whether anyone remembers the real name of the derelict establishment is a mystery. In this six-story building, most who occupy the rooms are long-term residents, though some stay for as little as an hour.
The patronage is an eclectic group: musicians, writers, addicts, hookers, lonely people, poor people, rich people, once-well-off people, and those who have reason to hide from their former lives or to escape the demands of a disapproving and punishing society.
As shabby as the Obscure is, as long as its walls keep out the wind and the rain, it remains a shelter, a hideaway, and a home for the many bewildered souls.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Grave Reservations
by Cherie Priest
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Meet Leda Foley: devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. When Leda, sole proprietor of Foley’s Flights of Fancy, impulsively re-books Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt’s flight, her life changes in ways she couldn’t have predicted.
After watching his original plane blow up from the safety of the airport, Grady realizes that Leda’s special abilities could help him with a cold case he just can’t crack.
Trick or Treat
by Katerina Diamond
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When six-year-old Marcus is taken from outside his house on Halloween it shakes his quiet neighbourhood to the core. Everyone was ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Now the unthinkable has happened.
TRUTH OR LIES? As Detective Imogen Grey arrives to question Marcus’s parents, they tell her there has been a mistake. Their son is just fine. But if that’s true, where is Marcus?
INNOCENT OR GUILTY?
Mae’s Second Chance Boxset
by Jacie Middlemann
Rating: 4.8 #ad
For the Engstrom family, the adventure of living in a ghost town with a huge mansion, saloon, jail cell, and its very own mystery is bittersweet as they struggle with inspiring determination to carry on after a tragic loss.
This includes:
Home to the Valley
Treasures Found
Valley Secrets
Courting Trouble
by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered — above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she’s got to play dead. She’ll have to trust people she barely knows — colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But her knack for courting trouble makes it almost impossible for Anne to play well with others, and an unexpected event places her in lethal jeopardy and leaves her with everything to lose.
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(Rosato & Associates Mysteries)
Pennies From Across the Veil
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Seemingly paranormal phenomena recorded in this book, are entirely based on true events.
Karl Himmel tells the story to an unknown presence, of how he met, fell in love, and married the woman of his dreams, Jenny Engels. But at the time of the telling, Karl and Jenny find themselves on different sides of the veil—the separation we call death. But not even death can stop true love. Powerful signs come to those from loved ones who have passed. They can be found any and everywhere, we just need to look for them. The most significant for Karl and Jenny was the finding of numerous wheat-back pennies. However, could there have been many others, and did these signs have a deeper meaning?
Silent Night
by Robert B. Parker, Helen Brann
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s December in Boston, and Spenser is busy planning the menu for Christmas dinner when he’s confronted in his office by a young boy named Slide. Homeless and alone, Slide has found refuge with an organization named Street Business, which gives shelter and seeks job opportunities for the homeless and lost.
Slide’s mentor, Jackie Alvarez, is being threatened, and Street Business is in danger of losing its tenuous foothold in the community, turning Slide and many others like him back on the street.
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(Spenser Mysteries)
Whiskey Lullaby
by Liliana Hart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Addison Holmes has her hands full. Marriage changes a woman, and pregnancy hormones are no joke. But despite her promise to retire from dangerous P.I. work, she has no choice but to take this case.
Twenty years ago, her father and his partner cracked the case of their careers. But it was all a set up. They sent the wrong men to prison, and now it’s time for the real culprits to tie up loose ends. Her father is dead, but his partner, who happens to be her mom’s new husband, is very much alive. At least for the time being.
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(Addison Holmes Mysteries)
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark Horse
by Gregg Hurwitz
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gregg Hurwitz’s New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.
Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission–The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn’t interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.
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(Orphan X Mysteries)
City of the Dead
by Jonathan Kellerman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead.
Early one morning, the two of them find themselves in a neighborhood of pretty houses, pretty cars, and pretty people. The scene they encounter is anything but. A naked young man lies dead in the street, the apparent victim of a collision with a moving van hurtling through suburbia in the darkness. But any thoughts of accidental death vanish when a blood trail leads to a nearby home.
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(An Alex Delaware Mysteries)
Origin
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Twenty years before the events of the first book, Leavenshome Farm seems like the perfect place for a young family. But when tragedy strikes, the Collins family are forced to live through an impossible horror.
Still struggling with grief following the death of her sister, Connie Collins can tell that her parents’ marriage is falling apart. When she starts to notice strange things happening in the house, she initially keeps quiet. Soon, however, she comes to realize that her sister’s ghost is trying to get through to her.
But what else is lurking in the shadows of the farmhouse?
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(Bait Mysteries)
Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapena
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can’t protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.
Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of the siblings is more disturbed than anyone knew. Did someone snap after that dreadful evening? Or did another person appear later that night with the worst of intentions?
The Long Call
by Ann Cleeves
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.
Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
Turn Coat
by Jim Butcher
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry is thought of as either a black sheep or a sacrificial lamb. And none hold him in more disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules. But now, Morgan is in trouble. He’s been accused of cold-blooded murder—a crime with only one, final punishment.
He’s on the run, wanting his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. So it’s up to Harry to uncover a traitor within the Council, keep Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself.
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(The Dresden Files Mysteries)
Worth Dying For
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades old, that Reacher can’t let go.
The Duncans want Reacher gone – and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late – and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Hare-Raising Haunting
by C.K. Fyfe
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Emma purchases a rustic train depot in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she expects the station to be steeped in history, not mystery. She and her rabbit Pepper settle into their new life in the woods, but they aren’t exactly alone—a specter from a long-gone past seems intent on haunting them.
Is Emma’s imagination running wild, or is she chugging down a dangerous track?
Relentless Rebels
by Sharon René
Rating: 5.0 #ad
After rescuing their kidnapped friends and stopping the government from assassinating Councilor Sierra Stone, Jordan and Team Seven thought the fight was over, but the real battle is just beginning. Sierra must now try to regain her role in the Global Collective Council while also convincing them that River Wallis, co-chair of the Council, tried to kill her. But her success could very well lead to a civil war.
The Council will do everything in their power to stop Sierra, including killing her allies. Barely surviving an attack on their mountain hideaway, Jordan and Team Seven’s lives are on the line. Again…
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(Divine Destiny Chronicles)
The Reunion
by Jana DeLeon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A bodyguard has his work cut out for him protecting a headstrong heiress in this classic tale from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon.
Bodyguard to an heiress is Tyler Duhan’s idea of hell. The steely, sexy ex-marine has heard—and dismissed – the gossip about the haunted old LeBeau mansion and its “cursed” heiresses. Now the middle sibling – headstrong Joelle – has arrived to comply with her mother’s will and reunite with her long-lost sisters.
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(Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Mysteries)
Bryant & May
by Christopher Fowler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When ninety-one-year-old Amelia Hoffman dies in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system.
But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs. Hoffman was once a government security expert, though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed.
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(Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries)
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The paperweight—a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . and a mystery. How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind? ~ Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. The paperweight, a gift from her father, spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers, and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
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(The Dumont Chronicles Mysteries)
IRON
by Madisyn Carlin
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Enforcing justice comes with a price.
Detective Redwyn “Red” Deathan will stop at nothing to uncover those behind the ruthless kidnappings of multiple children. But things are not as they seem, and Red’s efforts are thwarted at every turn. With each discovery the danger grows, putting Red and the lives of those she cares about at risk. Can she reveal the mastermind’s identity before she herself becomes a target?
Ritzy Vincent Peak
by Talla L. Lynn
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Four couples. Four never been released stories. Four happily ever afters. Join Nash and Sarah as they navigate around loss, restoration, and a hoard of naughty pets to find their prize in a sea of mess.
Royce and Lanie as they set aside their cherished, hard-earned plans to embrace the gifts neither of them thought they wanted, until they had the little nuggets.
Travis and Faith as they fight past demons that want to destroy them, while they blaze through crazy land minds of love and attraction to attain the peace they both desperately crave.
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Reads like a collaboration between Charlaine Harris and James Lee Burke.”
In the most haunted city on earth, the police can’t afford to disregard the supernatural. When N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia realizes voodoo is involved in a spate of panhandler murders, he turns to someone he knows who can help him – Wyatt Thomas, the French Quarter’s favorite private investigator. Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, Wyatt’s partner, is also a Tulane University English professor. Together, they form the most potent paranormal partnership in the Big Easy. If you have problems involving magic, voodoo, ghosts, witches, werewolves, shifters, the occult, or the supernatural, Wyatt and Mama are adept at paranormal investigation and the ones to call.