Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tall Tales & Witchy Fails
by Lily Harper Hart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Splat. That’s the sound Hali Waverly made when she hit the pavement after a drunken billionaire ran her over with his golf cart.
Cha-ching. That’s the sound her bank account made when his handlers got him under control and swooped in to buy Hali off. The offer? Ownership of a tiki bar on the property of a busy resort and lodging in one of the villas on St. Pete Beach.
Now Hali is officially successful. That doesn’t mean her life is a beach of roses. When private investigator Grayson “Gray” Hunter shows up asking questions about a missing woman, Hali is evasive. It’s not because she doesn’t want to help as much as she’s already running her own investigation with the help of her best friend, another witch, and a group of sirens who control the beach.
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(A Witch on the Rocks Cozy Mysteries)
Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn’t seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy.
Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless.
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(Stephanie Plum Mysteries)
Special Agent Hunter
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded with tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four.
Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that earn everyone’s respect.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
Child of Light
by Terry Brooks
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded with tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four.
Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that earn everyone’s respect.
Prague Fatale
by Philip Kerr
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Berlin, 1941. Bernie is back from the Eastern Front, once again working homicide in Berlin’s Kripo and answering to Reinhard Heydrich, a man he both detests and fears. Heydrich has been newly named Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. Tipped off that there is an assassin in his midst, he orders Bernie to join him at his country estate outside Prague, where he has invited some of the Third Reich’s most odious officials to celebrate his new appointment. One of them is the would-be assassin. Bernie can think of better ways to spend a beautiful autumn weekend, but, as he says, “You don’t say no to Heydrich and live.”
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(A Bernie Gunther Mysteries)
The Royals: Witch Court: The complete series
by Megan Montero
Rating: 4.7 #ad
This box set includes all five books in The Witch Court Series and is over 1,000 pages of magic, epic romance, adventure, and twists you’ll never see coming! It’s time to claim my power… All my life I’ve lived under lock and key, always following the strict rules my mother set for me. A week before my sixteenth birthday I sneak out of my house and discover why. Turns out I am not just a normal teenager. I’m a witch blessed with a gift someone wants to steal from me. And not just anyone…the evil King Alataris. For a thousand years the people of Evermore have suffered under his tyranny. The Mark on my shoulder says I am the Siphon Witch, one of five Witch Queens fated to come together and finally destroy him.
Heartless Heroes: A Dark Romance Anthology
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Some heroes want to save the world. Some will burn it down for the one they love.
Call them villains, anti-heroes, criminals, and monsters.
But these dark men love deeply and fiercely, and are ready to go to the ends of the earth to save their soulmate.
They will tempt you. Captivate you. Drag you into darkness, and leave you breathless. They’ll show you how good love can be in the dark.
There’s a spark between these pages, and these Heartless Heroes will set your world on fire.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Blueberry Festival
by Darci Hannah
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival—including the pie-eating contest her bakery is hosting – is the highlight of the summer. But soon Beacon Harbor runs into a patch of trouble.
A local real estate agent gets pranked. A parade float gets pelted with water balloons. It’s all laughed off until the stunts start escalatinga – nd looking more like sabotage…
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(A Beacon Bakeshop Mysteries)
Mr. & Mrs. Platt
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
WHAT COULD GO WRONG ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHT?
Mr. and Mrs. Platt are married at a big ceremony in Chicago. They spend their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of a five-star hotel in downtown Chicago. Robert Platt picks up his wife on the balcony to carry her over the threshold and back into their honeymoon suite. Instead, he tosses her over the railing and sends her plunging twenty-three stories to her death.
Homicide detective Cliff Ford is called to the scene. It’s inconceivable to him that a man would kill his bride on their honeymoon night. His skills are challenged as he must unlock the mystery behind a devious mind. A man who has killed before. And will kill again, if Cliff doesn’t stop him.
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(The Cliff Hangers Mysteries)
The Shadows of Men
by Abir Mukherjee
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Calcutta, 1923
When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force—Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee—track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath?
Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?
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(Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries)
The Pursuit
by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI’s most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn’t know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working for the FBI. It isn’t long before Nick’s covert partner, Special Agent Kate O’Hare, is in hot pursuit of the crook who stole her con man.
The trail leads to Belgium, France, and Italy, and pits Nick and Kate against their deadliest adversary yet: Dragan Kovic, an ex–Serbian military officer. He’s plotting a crime that will net him billions . . . and cost thousands of American lives.
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(A Fox and O’Hare Mysteries)
Ghost of a Chance
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A rainy night in east Texas leads to murder
When daring private detective Buck McDivit inherits his murdered aunt’s fishing camp on Caddo Lake, he quickly learns all isn’t right in this primordial paradise dripping with antebellum mystique. To retain his inheritance, he must take on a white supremacy group in the nearby racially-torn east Texas town of Deception. Will Buck prevail or become gator bait beneath the coffee-colored surface of the mysterious lake?
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(Paranormal Cowboy Mysteries)
Triptych
by Karin Slaughter
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael’ s lover before she became his enemy. But unbeknownst to both of them, another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer’s trail in the most coincidental of ways—and who may be the key to breaking the case wide open.
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(Will Trent Mysteries)
Bear Head
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 4.6 #ad
WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS
Jimmy Martin has a sore head. He’s used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him. The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist. It also claims to be a bear. A bear named Honey.
Jimmy has nothing against bioforms – he’s one himself, albeit one engineered out of human stock – and works with them everyday in Hell City, building the future, staking mankind’s claim to a new world: Mars.
The problem is that humanity isn’t the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal.
The Secret of Life
by Dr. Zeev Gilkis
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Age doesn’t matter! If we live right, we don’t have to age!
Dr. Zeev Gilkis is a cancer survivor who began competing in triathlons and surfing waves in his sixties.
In a conversational style and a friendly manner, the author is sharing his secrets about living better and longer, while enjoying every moment!
You too can enjoy life more and achieve anything you dream of!
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(Younger Than Ever)
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Bodies and Bows
by Elizabeth Penney
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Iris Buckley is hoping for a bit of rest and relaxation now that the summertime rush is winding down in Blueberry Cove, Maine. Her apron shop Ruffles & Bows has been a huge success, her friendships are stronger than ever, and now she’s ready for all of the end of summer cookouts on the beach that she can handle.
But before Iris can even turn on the grill, Bella’s latest fling, former Olympian sailor and gorgeous bad boy Lance Pederson is killed in a hit and run while jogging at dawn—and all the evidence points to Bella herself.
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(Apron Shop Mysteries)
The Black Country
by Alex Grecian
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When three members of a prominent family disappear from the Midlands—and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird’s nest—Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad is called in. But Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith have stepped into something much more bizarre and complicated than expected.
Superstitions abound in the intertwined histories of the villagers, including a local legend about a monster some claim to have seen. In addition, a mysterious epidemic is killing off the inhabitants, and the village itself is sinking into the coal mines below.
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(Scotland Yard’s Murder Mysteries)
Million Dollar Baby
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Compassion, redemption, and love—don’t miss this classic story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson!
When Chandra Hill is awakened by a cry in the night, she is shocked to discover an abandoned newborn in her barn. She rushes him to the hospital, but as a former pediatrician her instincts have already kicked in. Before she knows it, she’s discussing options for the baby with the emergency room doctor, Dallas O’Rourke.
Dallas finds himself bonding instantly with the baby—and with the intriguing woman who brought him in.
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(SAIL AWAY)
Quantum of Nightmares
by Charles Stross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she’s in charge of the Bigge Corporation – just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago.
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(Laundry Files Mysteries)
Fallen
by Linda Castillo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim. Rachael Schwartz was a charming but troubled Amish girl who left the fold years ago and fled Painters Mill. Why was she back in town? And who would kill her so brutally?
Kate remembers Rachael as the only girl who was as bad at being Amish as Kate was—and those parallels dog her. But the more Kate learns about Rachael’s life, the more she’s convinced that her dubious reputation was deserved. As a child, Rachael was a rowdy rulebreaker whose decision to leave devastated her parents and best friend…
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(Kate Burkholder Mysteries)
Love Bites
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.7 #ad
10 NY Times, USA Today and Bestselling authors bring you a tasty selection of shifter romance. From romantic suspense to laugh-out-loud comedy, these books will satisfy your paranormal love story cravings. It is our hope you find new authors to keep your entertained. Thank you for reading.
“This is full of several books l, some have been read some new to me. This is a great way to try some new to you authors and find a great new series. Won’t lose out picking up all these great reads.” by Amazon Customer
The Love of My Life
by Rosie Walsh
Rating: 4.3 #ad
I have held you at night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you?
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie.
And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Bingo Hall
by Linda Pohl
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sunday night bingo at St. Angela’s Church in the little village of Kenmore, New York, can be deadly. The stakes are high and the crowd is large. Priscilla Hatfield needs just one number to win! Bursting with excitement when I 17 is called, Priscilla suddenly grabs her chest and slumps over dead with her two lucky trolls, Jasper and Seymour, and her rosary beads by her side. But her two best friends and bingo buddies have good reason to believe she’s been murdered. Fearing the police investigation is going no-where, Ethel Dinwiddie and Nellie Pearce take matters into their own hands and vow to solve the case.
The Sick Wife
by Loretta Lost
Rating: 4.2 #ad
I fell in love with my patient’s husband. While she was dying of COVID-19. Only one problem… she didn’t die…
Camilla is a hardworking, mentally exhausted nurse dealing with extremely ill patients daily. Her life is empty and depressing until a beautiful, sick woman ends up in the hospital, and asks Camilla for help calling her husband.
When the woman is placed on a ventilator, and must remain in a medically-induced coma, Camilla continues to call her patient’s husband. They talk, and talk, and grow closer day by day… too close.
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(Marriage Mistake Mysteries)
The Harry Bosch Novels: Volume 2
by Michael Connelly
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Last Coyote: LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is suspended from the force for attacking his commanding officer. Unable to remain idle, he investigates the long-unsolved murder of a Hollywood prostitute…
Trunk Music: Harry returns to the force to investigate the murder of a movie producer with Mafia ties. Up against both the LAPD’s organized crime unit and the mob, Harry follows the money trail to Las Vegas, where the case becomes personal.
Angels Flight: The murder of a prominent African-American attorney who made his career suing the police for racism and brutality means that Harry’s friends and associates have become suspects; and he must work closely with longtime enemies suspicious of his maverick ways to investigate them…
Murder Creek
by Jane Suen
Rating: 4.1 #ad
When journalism student Eve investigates a 20-year-old cold case, she begins to unravel a small town’s darkest secrets… What exactly happened the night Lacey Walken went missing at Murder Creek?
College student Eve Sawyer senses something disturbing at Murder Creek—the site named for infamous murders committed centuries earlier and where Lacey Walken went missing.
Twenty years ago, Lacey disappeared without a trace … except for her bloody scarf tangled in fallen branches at the muddy water’s edge.
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(Eve Sawyer Mysteries)
Twenty-one Days
by Anne Perry
Rating: 4.6 #ad
1910:Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents’ influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman’s noose—in only twenty-one days.
Could Mrs. Graves’s violent death have anything to do with her husband’s profession?
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(Daniel Pitt Mysteries)
Constance
by Matthew FitzSimmons
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman’s waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Gibson Vaughn series.
In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying.
After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness—stored for that inevitable transition—something goes wrong…
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father.
When MacArthur is appointed the U.S. Army chief of staff, he becomes the youngest four-star general and one of America’s most powerful men. Out of hubris, he takes Isabel with him to America without marrying her.
The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
Rating: 4.1 #ad
In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after?
Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.