Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Most Fowl
by Donna Andrews
Rating: 4.8 #ad
In Murder Most Fowl, Meg Langslow’s in for a busy summer. Her husband is directing a production of Macbeth, and most of the cast and crew are occupying spare bedrooms in their house. She also has to keep an eye on Camp Birnam, where a group of medieval reenactors are commemorating the real-life Macbeth by setting up what they fondly believe is an authentic medieval Scottish military camp.
And then there’s Damien Goodwin, a filmmaker who has been hanging around, trying to document the production. When Goodwin hosts a showing of some of the footage he’s taken, he manages to embarrass or offend just about everyone. The next morning Meg isn’t exactly surprised to find that someone has murdered him.
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(Meg Langslow Mysteries)
The Sandman
by NEIL GAIMAN
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The first issue of the first volume of Neil Gaiman’s horror/fantasy epic! An occultist accidentally traps Morpheus, the embodiment of Dreams, and holds him for 70 years. Finally free, Morpheus seeks his lost objects of power and rediscovers his place in the universe.
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(The Sandman Mysteries)
The Souls of Lost Lake
by Jaime Jo Wright
Rating: 4.8 #ad
To save the innocent, they must face an insidious evil.
Wren Blythe has long enjoyed living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, helping her father with ministry at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess who is believed to still roam the forest. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coonses’ cabin ruins and a sinister mystery she is determined to unearth.
In 1930, Ava Coons has spent the last several years carrying the mantle of mystery since the day she emerged from the woods as a thirteen-year-old girl, spattered with blood, dragging a logger’s ax. She has accepted she will never remember what happened to her family, whose bodies were never found, and that the people of Tempter’s Creek will always blame her for their violent deaths.
Murder at St Anne’s
by J. R. Ellis
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Winter, snow, murder—and a centuries-dead suspect.
In the chilly depths of a Yorkshire winter, a well-liked rector is found bludgeoned to death in her own church. With no sign of a murder weapon, local superstition quickly pins the blame on the ghost of a medieval monk believed to haunt the building…
Well accustomed to unusual murder investigations, DCI Jim Oldroyd takes on the case, along with his assistant, Sergeant Andy Carter, but they are hampered at every turn by the deepening snow and the threat of the supernatural. Even as possible motives and opportunities begin to reveal themselves, Oldroyd struggles to find a better suspect than the hooded phantom.
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(A Yorkshire Murder Mysteries)
The Long Way Home from Crete
by Isaac Kal
Rating: 4.0 #ad
As the clouds of war and anti-Semitic feelings gather pace in 1930’s Europe, Abraham recognizes the danger that he and others are facing and decides to leave his comfortable life in Germany and travel with his family to Israel. There he intends to make a new life, far from the gathering storm, but life as an exile means a different set of hardships and as a means to support his family he eventually enlists in the British Royal Pioneer Corps, the only unit in the British military where an enemy alien was allowed to serve.
Within its ranks, fighting in desperate battles in Greece and Tobruk, Abraham must find deep reserves of strength and resilience if he is to survive the conflict and return to his wife, Genia, who is left struggling to raise their young son as a single parent in a new country. As the war drags on interminably, Abraham is left shattered by his wife’s unexpected infidelity. But even greater challenges must be faced by his son, Aaron, who is sent to live in an orphanage.
Under Her Care
by Lucinda Berry
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the bestselling author of The Perfect Child comes a shocking thriller about the disturbing complexities of a mother’s love and the deadly consequences of unravelling family secrets.
On a humid summer day in Alabama, a mayor’s wife turns up brutally murdered under a railroad bridge. Standing next to her body is fourteen-year-old Mason Hill, the autistic son of former Miss USA Genevieve Hill. The locals are quick to level their verdict on young Mason: he did it…
A Trace of Deceit
by Karen Odden
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London’s art world to learn the truth behind her brother’s murder…
Edwin is dead. That’s what Inspector Matthew Hallam of Scotland Yard tells Annabel Rowe when she discovers him searching her brother’s flat for clues. While the news is shocking, Annabel can’t say it’s wholly unexpected, given Edwin’s past as a dissolute risk-taker and art forger, although he swore he’d reformed. After years spent blaming his reckless behavior for their parents’ deaths, Annabel is now faced with the question of who murdered him—because Edwin’s death was both violent and deliberate. A valuable French painting he’d been restoring for an auction house is missing from his studio: find the painting, find the murderer. But the owner of the artwork claims it was destroyed in a warehouse fire years ago.
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(A Dangerous Duet)
Living Dead in Dallas
by Charlaine Harris
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her—her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton—she has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life. So when one of the local Undead asks the cocktail waitress for a favor, she feels like she owes them.
Soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved. There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behave—and let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly…
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(Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries)
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Crafter Knits a Clue
by Holly Quinn
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a heartbroken Samantha “Sammy” Kane returns to her hometown of Heartsford, WI, for her best friend Kate’s funeral, she learns that Kate’s much-loved craft store is in danger of perishing with its owner. Confounding all her expectations of the life she would live, Sammy moves back home with her golden retriever and takes over Community Craft. A few doors down Main Street, fellow new arrival Ingrid Wilson has just opened the Yarn Barn, a real “purl” of a shop. But when Sammy strolls over to see if Ingrid could use a little help, she finds Ingrid’s dead body—with a green aluminum knitting needle lodged in her throat.
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(A Handcrafted Mysteries)
The Becoming
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two – including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who’s dazzled and disoriented by this realm – a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In Talamh, Breen is not the ordinary young schoolteacher he knew her as. Here she is learning to embrace the powers of her true identity. Marco is welcomed kindly by her people -and by Keegan, leader of the Fey. Keegan has trained Breen as a warrior, and his yearning for her has grown along with his admiration of her strength and skills.
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(The Dragon Heart Mysteries)
Black Pudding Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When aging friends form a detective agency in their Scottish village, their likelihood of success seems dubious. One is blind, two have hearing problems, one uses a crutch—and the two youngest members are from America, not Scotland.
Dubbing themselves the Fog Busters, the friends vow to solve a murder that local police have labeled as Death by Misadventure. Indeed, misadventure seems to follow the Fog Busters when the killer attempts to stop them from investigating.
Add in a lost treasure of rare Scottish coins, a false prophet, a string of house breakings and dog nappings, and a dog fighting ring – and the Fog Busters have the recipe for laughter and danger.
Afterburn
by Biba Pearce, Without Warrant
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A fast-paced, engrossing crime thriller set in sultry southern Florida from bestseller Biba Pearce.
When missing heiress Natalia Cruz’s body is found in the Everglades, journalist Kenzie Gilmore is assigned the case. Is she the fourth victim of a sexual predator stalking women in Miami…
…or is her killer trying to make it look like she is? Ex-cop Reid Garrett doesn’t appreciate bodies turning up in his backyard.
The Everglades is his turf… …but there’s been four murdered women in as many months.
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(Kenzie Gilmore Mysteries)
The November Girl
by Lydia Kang
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the Nebraska Book Award in 2018!
I am Anda, and the lake is my mother. I am the November storms that terrify sailors and sink ships. With their deaths, I keep my little island on Lake Superior alive. Hector has come here to hide from his family until he turns eighteen. Isle Royale is shut down for the winter, and there’s no one here but me. And now him.
Hector is running from the violence in his life, but violence runs through my veins. I should send him away, to keep him safe. But I’m half human, too, and Hector makes me want to listen to my foolish, half-human heart. And if I do, I can’t protect him from the storms coming for us.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends…
The Best of Jules de Grandin
by Seabury Quinn
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Hercule Poirot meets Fox Mulder . . . raises genuine shivers. “ – Kirkus Reviews
A collection of the 20 greatest tales of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Chocolate Hearts and Murder
by Patti Larsen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A Multiple Drink Kind of Night
Why was it fancy Valentine’s Day drinks were always tinted red? Reminded me more of gore and mayhem than anything to do with romance. Which said a lot, I suppose, for my state of mind when it came to relationships and dating.
I sipped carefully at the mimosa the bartender smilingly handed me and shrugged off the sweetness. It had alcohol in it, so I guess it would do. A few of these and I might even find a way to enjoy myself tonight. Yeah, right.
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(Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries)
The Girls Are Gone
by Michael Brodkorb, Allison Mann
Rating: 4.0 #ad
On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born to David Rucki and Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, the teenage sisters vanished in the midst of their parents’ divorce.
The girls’ father, David Rucki, worked tirelessly with law enforcement to search day and night for his two missing daughters, following every lead while raising three remaining children at home. Their mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, used her newfound freedom to vacation around the world, abandoning her children. And as the investigation intensified, catching the attention of the media, Sandra also disappeared.
Millie’s Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery Novels Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Treat yourself to this deluxe box set featuring the first 10 novels from bestselling author Hope Callaghan’s Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery series!
Discover why so many fans love Millie’s Cruise Ship Mysteries with thousands of four and five Star Reviews on Amazon and Goodreads!
If you like clean, fun-filled cozy mysteries that keep you guessing until the end, you’ll love Millie’s Cruise Ship Mystery Series!
BONUS: RECIPES INCLUDED!
The Last Mile
by Kat Martin
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is after—the map she recently inherited from her grandfather. Whoever he is, the man who grapples with her, then escapes, is willing to kill for the location of a treasure King Farrell hunted for more than ten years. The Devil’s Gold has claimed hundreds of lives, and it was her grandfather’s obsession.
With a killer pursuing her and her own family not to be trusted, Abby decides to take up the search herself. But she’ll need help to do it, and there’s no one better than renowned explorer and treasure hunter Gage Logan.
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(Blood Ties Mysteries)
A Perfect Wife
by Elle Gray
Rating: 4.5 #ad
They say every action you take has a series of consequences. And that death is an inevitable end. There is truth to all of that, but for a price. The precious thing you lost, might just find its way back to you…
Fourteen years ago, Blake Wilder’s life turned into one of tragedy. In an instant she lost her family… Her parents murdered, and her sister taken. At the age of 22, Blake joined the FBI in hopes of discovering the truth behind the mysteries of her past. Now, she is called to a homicide scene involving a brutal murder of a male victim.
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(Blake Wilder FBI Mysteries)
Conclave: A Devil’s Night
by Penelope Douglas
Rating: 4.4 #ad
DAMON: Will is gone. He hasn’t been seen in months, and the texts coming from his phone are almost certainly forged. Something’s wrong. We need to act now.
Michael is ready to tear down The Cove, Rika’s hiding something, Evans Crist is a threat, and Winter’s father is still out there. Everyone is off in a million directions, and we’re vulnerable. It’s time to do this.
It’s time to claim our place.
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(Devil’s Night Mysteries)
Thief of Hearts and Beneath the Badge
by Tess Gerritsen, Rita Herron
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Reformed cat burglar Clea Rice has witnessed enough crimes to put her on the straight and narrow. But little does she suspect that her search for justice will land her in the arms of wealthy English gentleman Jordan Tavistock. As the couple’s attraction grows, so does the danger. Now their biggest concern isn’t whether a proper gentleman and a cat burglar can find happiness. It’s whether they’ll survive long enough to find out.
FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!
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(In Their Footsteps)
Kingdoms at War
by Lindsay Buroker
Rating: 4.5 #ad
As a cartography student, Jak has always dreamed of finding the lost dragon gate and exploring and mapping distant worlds. Developing magical powers and becoming a powerful wizard? Not a chance.
Wizards are cruel and inhumane, warring with each other from their great sky cities and keeping most of humanity enslaved. Jak wants nothing to do with them.
But when he and his archaeologist mother unearth the gate, they attract the attention of the very wizards they sought to avoid. Even more troubling, Jak starts developing magical powers of his own, powers that could rival those of the great rulers.
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(Dragon Gate Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Carries a Torch
by Anne George
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Though unalike as snowflakes, sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice share a sympathetic heart for their distraught cousin Luke — known affectionately in his boyhood as “Pukey Lukey,” because of his penchant for getting sick in moving vehicles. Luke is desperate to hunt down Virginia, his wife of forty years, who has run off with a housepainter/snake-handling preacher named “Monk.” And the sisters have graciously agreed to accompany their stricken kinsman on his search…in Luke’s car, of course.
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(Southern Sisters Mysteries)
Wickedly It Begins
by Cathrina Constantine
Rating: 4.2 #ad
One fateful night will change their lives forever.
Seeley is born a hunter. God’s warrior. She’s endowed with inexplicable gifts to slay creatures and demons threatening human’s. Alongside her guardian angel, Ezekiel, she will face unimaginable trials and tribulations.
Jack Chase was born an orphan. Kicked from foster home to foster home, he lands with a couple who worships Satan. He succumbs to their diabolical rituals, and learns he also has extraordinary talents. Wealthy, Asa Trebane, and leader of the Black Order of the Cult locates this teenager he’s heard much about. He takes Jack under his wing and into his home.
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(The Wickedly Mysteries)
The Family Next Door
by John Glatt
Rating: 4.5 #ad
On January 14, 2018, a seventeen-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 on a borrowed cell phone. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her 12 siblings—ranging in age from 2 to 29—were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. “I’ve never been out,” she stammered.
To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented a picture of domestic bliss: dressing their thirteen children in matching outfits and buying them expensive gifts. But what police discovered when they entered the Turpin family home would eclipse the most shocking child abuse cases in history.
Regulators Boxed Set
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Regulator Biker Series follows Portia Anne Talbot as her life intertwines with different members of the MC. After the death of her abusive husband, she meets George Ross, boss of the Regulators, and her life changes forever.
“I stumbled on to Carolina Mac’s books online one day and haven’t stopped! The story pulls you in and never lets up. The characters are so vivid and human. You won’t get sweet mushy happily ever afters. You get realistic characters with flaws that are connected to each other in a believable way. I have read the entire series twice and have read a few other series by the author, but The Regulators Series is still my favorite.” by Amazon Customer
The Clockmaker’s Daughter
by Kate Morton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist’s sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
NIGHT VISION
by Paul Levine
Rating: 4.5 #ad
NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING CRIME THRILLER
An Internet stalker turned serial killer… Jake Lassiter follows clues from Miami to London… And gets framed for murder himself.
“Catch me if you can.” The lipsticked message on the bathroom mirror evokes the bloody history of Jack the Ripper. But the dead woman’s computer points to a modern website where anonymous women spend solitary nights in steamy talk with lovelorn trolls, sometimes arranging real rendezvous that can lead to anything…even murder. Jake Lassiter is on the case.
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(Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers)
Oyster Bay Boogie
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.5 #ad
You can check out anytime you like
A Cajun werewolf stalking Oyster Bay, a Prohibition-era resort in the Gulf of Mexico, leads to Jack Wiesinski and Grogan ‘Chief’ la Tortue’s discovery of a gold doubloon and case of rare Dominican rum. Dancer Odette Mouton hitchhikes to the secluded Louisiana island following Jack and Chief’s drunken celebration at a New Orleans Bourbon Street strip club. The three quickly learn the werewolf isn’t the island’s only paranormal entity.
Oyster Bay Boogie is Book 1 of Eric Wilder’s gripping Oyster Bay Mystery Series set on a remote Louisiana Island about fifty miles from New Orleans. See what Amazon reviewers are already saying about this paranormal thriller steeped in action, adventure and boatloads of fantasy
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(Oyster Bay Mysteries)
It Only Takes a Moment
by Mary Jane Clark
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A seasoned television professional—the host of the top-rated KEY News morning show—Eliza Blake has reported on tragedies many times from behind the anchor’s desk . . . and she has survived devastating crises of her own. But only now is she learning the true meaning of terror when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is kidnapped from summer camp. Forced to suffer through a mother’s worst nightmare in the glare of the camera lights, Eliza finds herself trapped in a media circus as the police and FBI explore every avenue . . . and every lead winds up at a dead end.
But Eliza isn’t going to just sit around and wait for answers—because every minute wasted in the desperate race to reveal the shocking motives of a ruthless abductor brings a frightened little girl one minute closer to her death.
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(Sunrise Suspense Society Mysteries)