Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Play Dead
by David Rosenfelt
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this imaginative legal thriller for dog lovers, an attorney tries to free an innocent man by convincing an incredulous jury to take the testimony a golden retriever seriously.
Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter’s affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara.
After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another retriever’s death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years earlier.
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(Andy Carpenter Mysteries)
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.
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.
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(Within and Without Time Mysteries)
Cat And Mouse
by M. J. Arlidge
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When you think you’re safe, When you think you’re all alone, That’s when he’ll come for you…
A silent killer stalks the city, targeting those home alone at night, playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with the victims.
As panic spreads, Detective Inspector Helen Grace leads the investigation, but is herself a hunted woman, her every step shadowed by a ruthless psychopath bent on revenge.
As she tracks the murderer, Grace begins to suspect there is a truly shocking home truth that connects these brutal crimes. But what she will find is something more twisted than she could ever suspect…
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Chock full of mystery, suspense and intrigue, The Pelican Trees allows each reader to do just that, each step carefully orchestrated by a loving grandfather (already in Heaven) trying to rescue his precious granddaughter and the rest of his family from eternal condemnation.
Shocking…
Left out of her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
Exciting…
Tailspin
by Sandra Brown
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Rye Mallett, a fearless “freight dog” pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But above all, he has a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely to their destination. So when Rye is asked to fly into a completely fogbound northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious black box to a Dr. Lambert, he doesn’t ask questions.
As Rye’s plane nears the isolated landing strip, more trouble than inclement weather awaits him. Greeted with a sabotage attempt on his plane, he has barely recovered from the crash landing when he meets Dr. Brynn O’Neal, who claims she is receiving the box for Dr. Lambert.
The Fugitives
by Dave P. Fisher
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A brand new Western adventure sequel from Dave P. Fisher!
Ambrose Lacey and Gilbert Bean escaped from the Wyoming Territorial Prison and had a free run for seven months. They thought themselves safe, hiding in the Laramie Mountains with their kin to protect them. They should have stayed in hiding, but instead bossed a gang of their kin in an extortion scheme against travelers and a peaceful settlement of merchants and farmers along the Laramie River.
Lacey and Bean’s time began to tick away the day Sheriff Jeff Carr pointed out their wanted bulletins to Jack and Long Rider, and they took the fugitives as their next job. The fugitive’s time grew shorter when Jack and Long Rider came on the settlement and taught the townsfolk how to fight back.
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(A Seaver And Long Rider Western)
Justice Begins Complete Series Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
It rose like a jewel from the sea, tantalizing and dangerous.
The ancient island of Atlantis was rediscovered in the 1950s, and a war-weary world had to decide how to handle this revelation.
Enter Atlantica, the land of promise where there are no politics, no ideologies, no loyalties beyond the Almighty Dollar.
By 1965, business is booming, but the wheels of this materialistic machine are crushing innocents in its voracious ascent.
Who will stand for those trapped in this uncaring system?
Get the complete 6-book series to find out!
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor’s handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years.
Your Self-Confidence Restoration Guide
by LearnWell Books
Rating: 5.0 #ad
THERE IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT NO ONE HAS TOLD YOU ABOUT YOUR CONFIDENCE …
Through time and negative conditioning, oppressive workplaces, cynical peers and unhealthy relationships, your confidence has faded. It’s become like a dim candle, vulnerable to the slightest puff of wind.
Other people’s opinions, bad teachers, bullies, negative peers, trauma, corruptive television and social media have threatened your confidence and therefore your opportunities in life. You’ve experienced failure. You’ve let yourself down. Others have let you down. You’ve created a story that you’re no longer capable or even deserving.
WHAT IF YOU NEVER FOUND OUT?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Reading Between the Crimes
by Kate Young
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Agatha Christie’s Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine’s actions are particularly believable. But not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question.
When Lyla and her grandmother arrive at the charity event that Lyla’s mother is hosting, they barely have time to hang up their fall jackets before they stumble upon a body in the library…
Carnival Blues
by Damien Boyd
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Carnival season is off to an explosive start in this thriller from the bestselling DI Nick Dixon crime series.
Detective Chief Inspector Nick Dixon arrives late for Bridgwater’s winter carnival. He’s come to see the squibbing, the traditional firework display that brings the town’s November festivities to a dramatic close. But when the squib of Avalon Carnival Club president Richard Webb is lit, it explodes, engulfing him in flames.
Dixon knows he’s just witnessed a killer making a very public statement. And he can’t help feeling it’s only the beginning.
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(DI Nick Dixon Crime Mysteries)
Ohana
by Sally Royer-Derr
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“…a twisted, fast-paced story of deception and intrigue, which proves both creative and unique.” – BookLife Prize
They’re Gone, But I’m Still Here
Mandy’s life has become a complex labyrinth following the tragic death of her husband and twin daughters. Despondent and depressed, she withers away in a drunken haze on a glorious Maui beach, longing to turn back time, plagued by strange dreams of her family.
Even with her in this state, handsome surfer, Chase, cannot stop thinking about the mystery woman he sees lying on the beach every morning, and he befriends her. A relationship is the last thing she wants, but will it light the way to finding herself again?
How It Happened
by Michael Koryta
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An FBI investigator must uncover the secrets of his hometown to solve a double murder in this twisty “page turner” that’s “perfect summer reading” (Stephen King).
“And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?”
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little reason to believe her story.
Wizen Woods
by Velvet Davis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Warnings echo through the woods…
Born with the mark of the scribe, Raela is bound to a magical book that will help guide her people underground to escape the invasion of their homeland. As the prophecy warns, this event signals an even worse doom on the horizon.
But the book that promises to sustain her life continues to divide her heart.
Her fierce lover, Rebial, is a man of the woods. He believes the tribe’s aging seer has misconstrued the prophecy. Unfairly denied his warrior status, he vows to stay behind and protect the sacred forest they call home.
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(Immortal Roots Mysteries)
Clyde: Return to Tucson
by William Black
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Clyde “The Kid” Cunningham never planned on returning to his hometown of Tucson, Arizona. He had ran away from home for good reason, after the horrific murder of his father by a disgruntled neighbor over three acres of farmland.
After his own life was threatened, Clyde did what any fifteen-year-old would have done – he jumped on his horse and rode as far as he could.
After ten years of living in New Mexico, Clyde and the Navajo family who had taken him in came to Tucson in an effort to get a fresh start. However, Clyde quickly learns that fresh starts aren’t as simple as they should be. Upon arrival, he learns that the greedy neighbor who had killed his father is now the mayor of Tucson.
Dead Against Her
by Melinda Leigh
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Called to an isolated farm to check on an elderly widow, Sheriff Bree Taggert finds a brutal double homicide. One of the victims is Eugene Oscar, the bitter and corrupt former deputy she recently forced out of the department.
Working with criminal investigator Matt Flynn, Bree discovers that she isn’t the only one who had a troubling history with Eugene. But someone doesn’t want Bree digging up the past. She becomes the target of a stranger’s sick and devious campaign calculated to destroy her reputation, career, family, and new relationship with Matt. To make matters worse, she’s the prime suspect in Eugene’s murder.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death of a Pumpkin Carver
by Lee Hollis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A sleuthing food writer must cope with a visit from her ex-husband—and it gets even worse when he becomes a suspect in a homicide . . .
For Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for the Island Times, Halloween is all about costumes and holiday treats – until a killer crashes the party . . .
This Halloween, Hayley can’t imagine a worse trick than her ex-husband Danny returning to Bar Harbor. Her kids may be happy to see their dad, but Hayley’s determined not to be taken in by his charms, and suspects he’s in financial trouble – again.
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(A Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries)
One Day Gone
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Mylas Grey is a private investigator but don’t call him a private detective.
That title belongs to his father – not to him.
Mylas is the Chief Investigator for Senator Davis Allen, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. His job is to do background investigations for the President’s judicial nominees, and that’s the only kind of investigation he’s interested in doing.
But then Lizzie, the Senator’s daughter, goes missing from her campus apartment. And suddenly, just like that, Mylas finds himself back in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, investigating her disappearance as if he were a run-of-the-mill private detective.
Nothing about the investigation is easy. Discovering a motive isn’t easy . . .
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(Mylas Grey Mysteries)
The Vacant Lot
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A heart-pounding time-travel, romance mystery.
Ian had reached a higher level of love for Eunice, a love that was pure. His feelings for her were beyond that of a friend, sister, or lover. It was a love, devoid of the labels most people need to put to their feelings. That’s what he told her the last time he saw her back in 2019 or was it 1984 since Ian believed Eunice was a time-traveler. She came to him when he was eight years old in a vacant lot near his house, and when she left, he spent the rest of his days searching for her.
He solicited the help of a friend, Jill, a fragrance expert who discovered through the use of scents and the moon, they could transport to the past in search of his lost love.
Dead By Nightfall
by Beverly Barton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
To save his wife, a Southern detective is drawn into a final showdown with his sadistic nemesis in this romantic suspense series finale.
Malcolm York is a sadistic murderer. And with his endless wealth he’s funded a series of depraved human hunts. The few who survived can never forget. They can only be thankful the terror is over. Until rumors start swirling . . .
Griffin Powell knows the twisted depths of York’s madness. He’s also sure that York is dead. But then Griff’s wife, Nicole, disappears. And the phone calls begin—that familiar voice taunting him, promising to destroy everything Griff loves.
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(Griffin Powell Mysteries)
Winter’s Malice
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three bodies in the span of twenty-four hours…
It’s the dead of winter, and in Weeping Rock, South Dakota—a small town crippled by racism, drugs, and violence -Sheriff’s Deputy Liam Matthews has his work cut out for him when he steps in to take over the duties of sheriff from his father, who for far too long has turned a blind eye to certain crimes for what he says is the overall good of the town.
Coming under scrutiny for hiring a Lakota to fill his position as deputy, things quickly go from bad to worse for Liam when the body of retired pro-baseball player Hector Ramirez, who had recently returned home to coach ball at his high school alma mater, is found floating in Crow’s Foot Lake.
No Turning Back
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Danger lurks in the secrets of a small town in this blistering novel of intrigue and suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of The Babysitter.
They find the body deep in the woods, lying beneath a carpet of wet leaves, eyes still open in a sightless stare. Three dark stains across his chest, and another bullet hole in his forehead.
Child psychologist Liz Havers made a mistake sixteen years ago, and she’s ready to face it. That means confronting Detective Hawthorne “Hawk” Hart, who’s come back to Woodside, Washington, after a case in LA went tragically wrong. His teenage son, Jesse, is finding it difficult to adjust, and stumbling across a dead man doesn’t help.
Ether War: The Complete Series
by John Walker
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Resource as Precious as Life
Ether. It revolutionized human technology. Made faster than light travel possible. With this new form of energy, people expanded beyond Earth to distant stars in other galaxies across the cosmos. After years of conflicts, a rebellion, and countless skirmishes, the Human Confederacy is a thriving government, a beacon of civilization.
Until an ether facility is destroyed out of the blue with no one taking credit for the destruction. Enter the Morrigan, a state of the art ship with a brilliant but inexperienced crew. Their captain Noah Markel is no stranger to battle and he believes this may not be as simple as an act of terrorism but rather an incursion. Their first contact with an alien race. One bent on crippling human space travel in preparation for something far worse than a border dispute.
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(John Walker)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Sassy Senior Sleuths
by P.C. James
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Travel can be murder. Can Miss Riddell and Nona catch the villains before they become victims?
Travel forward from the Miss Riddell series to the twenty-first century with the demure Miss Pauline Riddell as she befriends a strangely lovable, fly by the seat of her pants amateur sleuth, named Gretta Galia aka Nona. The two sixty-five year-old travel companions visit tourist traps around the United States.
This story moves forward about twenty years from the Miss Riddell Series by P.C. James and back in time about twenty years from the Quilting Cozy Mystery series by Kathryn Mykel. Approximating the setting of these stories to be during the turn of the 21st century, between 2000-2005.
Magic Transformed
by D. J. Dalton
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When life twists out of control, can an elemental sorceress re-balance the universe before it spins into destruction?
Keren Stewart’s guilt is crushing. After accidentally unleashing a plague among the fox shifters, the young mage is willing to take deadly risks to right the wrong. With her black mood worsening under pressure from an increasingly impatient elf princess, she’s devastated when her beloved sister is kidnapped by a powerful evil.
Convinced that giving in to the royal’s demands could buy her enough breathing room to save the world, Keren struggles to deal with the mounting magical emergencies. But with foes circling, her perilous path to victory may depend on forming a dangerous pact with unlikely allies.
Close to Home
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Home. Along the shores of Oregon’s wild Columbia River, the Victorian mansion where Sarah McAdams grew up is as foreboding as she remembers. The moment she and her two daughters, Jade and Gracie, pull up the isolated drive, Sarah is beset by uneasy memories—of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow’s walk, feverish and delirious.
Is Where. But Sarah has vowed to make a fresh start and renovate the old place. Between tending to her girls and the rundown property, she has little time to dwell on the past . . . Until a new, more urgent menace enters the picture.
The Fear Is
A Noise Downstairs
by Linwood Barclay
Rating: 4.3 #ad
College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. Until, driving along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer disposing of a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s “normal” existence is turned upside down. After nearly losing his own life in that encounter, he finds himself battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems at work. His wife, Charlotte, desperate to cheer him up, brings home a vintage typewriter—complete with ink ribbons and heavy round keys—to encourage him to get started on that novel he’s always intended to write.
However, the typewriter itself is a problem. Paul swears it’s possessed and types by itself at night. But only Paul can hear the noise coming from downstairs; Charlotte doesn’t hear a thing. And she worries he’s going off the rails.
To Catch a Spy
by R.J. Patterson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Maddux, the CIA’s freshly-minted civilian agent, is called upon to capture a former Nazi scientist who has gone missing in allied territory. However, when Maddux nears his target, the new operative learns that the stakes are far higher than anyone ever imagined. He also discovers that the scientist knows something about the disappearance of Maddux’s father.
With the clock ticking and the scientist scrambling to avoid capture, Maddux must slip behind enemy lines and stop powerful forces intent on reigniting a world war.
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(An Ed Maddux Cold War Spy Thriller)
An Heiress’s Guide to Deception and Desire
by Manda Collins
Rating: 4.1 #ad
England, 1867: As half of the writing duo behind England’s most infamous crime column, Miss Caroline Hardcastle has quite the scandalous reputation. It may have cost her a fiancé, but she would much rather bring attention to crimes against those ignored by society than worry about what the ton thinks of her.
After Caro’s dear friend is kidnapped, however, she has no choice but to work with Lord Valentine Thorn, the same man who broke her heart. Worse, when her actions put her father’s business at risk, a marriage of convenience may be her only solution . . . but can she trust Val to stand by her? Or will their past repeat itself?
Hidden Bones
by Vivian Barz
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Two months have passed, and the horrors of Death Farm still torment police officer Susan Marlan and college professor Eric Evans. Susan struggles to regain her zeal for fighting crime, while Eric is slowly coming to terms with his newfound “gift” of seeing the dead.
Seeking much-needed rest, Susan and Eric follow their musician friend Jake and his band to Washington State. But once they reach the cheerless town of Clancy, Eric’s murderous visions start again. Something seems wrong about the town and its aloof citizens—and suspicions turn to dread when members of Jake’s band go missing.
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(Dead Remaining Mysteries)