Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Love and Money, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.6 #ad
No one wants to believe murder can happen in their neighborhood.
Murder is nothing new for Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth, or her husband, Detective Brett McMann. Still, shots fired add a layer of tension to babysitting and being neighborly. This time the murder is too close for comfort. There are no witnesses and no verified identification of the victim, not to mention the car accident prompting Sheridan to be next door. Questions are raised about an investment company and business practices. Could a kitten have the key to the motive and killer?
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy
by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Get ALL THREE books in the electrifying, unputdownable Reykjavik Noir Trilogy in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set!
A young, single mother is lured into cocaine smuggling to keep custody of her son, as she eludes customs officers and the police, and tries to escape the clutches of the kingpins in Lilja Sigurardttir’s critically acclaimed, award-winning, international bestselling Reykjavik Noir Trilogy. A nerve-shredding, emotive Icelandic series by the co-writer of the Netflix hit Katla.
Snare (Book One)
Trap (Book Two)
Cage (Book Three)
Queen of Diamonds
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Logan Hunter is a bestselling author with a penchant for the ladies. Kendall Theron, his efficient publicist is prim and colorless—at least on the surface. Beneath the proper facade is a woman who will do anything to protect her family, even if it’s not quite legal. Kendall, knowing her boss’s propensity for the fair sex, has replicated herself into a lady who should hold no appeal for the charismatic charmer she works for. She’s even added a Mrs. in front of her name for an extra layer of protection. If her boss ever turns those sharp eyes on her, if his curiosity is unleashed and he digs up her secrets, the results could mean jail time. It’s taken Logan Hunter nearly three years to discover there’s more to his employee than meets the eye.
Magic Binds
by Ilona Andrews
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar.
Kate’s father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and is slowly bleeding him dry in a never-ending bid for power. A Witch Oracle has predicted that if Kate marries the man she loves, Atlanta will burn and she will lose him forever. And the only person Kate can ask for help is long dead.
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(Kate Daniels Mysteries)
Murder at Bray Manor
by Lee Strauss
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A poltergeist guilty of murder?
In order to keep Bray Manor afloat financially, Felicia and Ambrosia have opened the estate to the public for club meetings and special events. Knitters, stamp collectors and gardeners converge weekly~targets for the poltergeist that seems to find amusement in hiding small things from their owners.
Bray Manor hosts a dance to raise money for maimed soldiers who struggle with peacetime after the Great War. Felicia invites her flapper friends and her new beau, Captain Smithwick, a man Ginger has met before and definitely doesn’t like.
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(A Ginger Gold Mysteries)
London Twist
by Barry Eisler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Delilah, the Mossad’s top seductress, the parameters of the assignment were routine. The contractor: MI6. The objective: infiltrate a terror network, this one operating out of London. The stakes: a series of poison gas attacks on civilian population centers.
There’s just one wrinkle. The target is a woman–as smart, beautiful, and committed as Delilah herself. And for a cynical operative thrust suddenly out of her element, the twists and turns of the spy game are nowhere near as dangerous as the secrets and desires of the human heart.
The Secret Keeper
by Kate Morton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
During a picnic at her family’s farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking crime, a crime that challenges everything she knows about her adored mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel and her sisters are meeting at the farm to celebrate Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this is her last chance to discover the truth about that long-ago day, Laurel searches for answers that can only be found in Dorothy’s past. Clue by clue, she traces a secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds thrown together in war-torn London—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—whose lives are forever after entwined.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Broadcast 4 Murder
by J.C. Eaton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Phee’s mother Harriet is going to be a star! At least, that’s how the Sun City West retiree describes her chance to host a live radio program of her book club’s Booked 4 Murder Mystery Hour on Arizona’s KSCW. But instead of chatting about charming cozies, Harriet ends up screaming bloody murder over the airwaves after discovering the body of Howard Buell, the station’s programming director, in a closet—with a pair of sewing shears shoved into his chest.
The number one suspect is Howard’s ex-girlfriend Sylvia Strattlemeyer who believed she was going to host a sewing talk show before Harriet was offered the spot.
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(Sophie Kimball Mysteries)
Finding Maisy
by Glenda C Manus
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Reverend Rock Clark has scoffed at the term “pastor burnout” when he’s heard other pastors use it. Just an excuse for a sabbatical, he once told his wife, Liz. But now he’s eating his words. Eating crow is more like it, and he’s been doing a lot of that lately.
Maisy Martin thinks she’s lucky despite having a disappearing daddy and a momma everyone thinks is crazy. Her luck began the day she got caught stealing tomatoes. If not for that fateful day ten years ago, she wouldn’t have Tom and Zell Baker in her life and would likely be drifting from one foster home to another.
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(Southern Grace Series)
Fire and Ashes
by Harley Tate
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth. A government coverup. A family caught in the middle.
Welcome to Falling Skies. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Former Marine Caleb Machert is managing overworked line crews when reports of an impending world-wide disaster hit the news. His men panic, but he’s not buying it. The government would never hide something this important, would they?
Elizabeth is busy herding her students into the library when she discovers an asteroid is headed straight for the east coast. Her first instinct is to find her husband and daughter and flee west, but she can’t leave. Twenty first graders are depending on her.
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(Falling Skies Mysteries)
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT
by SUSANNA BEARD
Rating: 4.0 #ad
THAT NIGHT. Lisa remembers the first part of the night: an evening in the pub with her best friend. Then nothing. She wakes up, days later. She’s in hospital. Her best friend is dead.
WHAT HAPPENED? Lisa holes up in a remote country cottage, plagued by guilt and flashbacks: how did their assailant know them? Why were they attacked? And what really happened that night?
With only vague memories of the event, she cuts herself off from friends and family, spending her days wandering the hills with her dog, Riley.
I’m the Grasshopper
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.0 #ad
When newspaper staff writer Stacy Estes trips over a man’s body in her grandmother’s yard, she goes from reporting the news to being the news. This is hard for the 48-year-old widow whose reactions to life are usually…Run. Hide.
Stacy fights to keep her secrets intact, including her physical disability, especially from the first love of her life, Kirk, who has moved back to the community. Lost treasure? Gold mining in Texas? Flying saucers on her grandmother’s hill? And what about the men who go into the Comanche Cliff store – and disappear?
Lake Silence
by Anne Bishop
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget….
After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns such as Vicki’s don’t have any distance from the Others, the dominant predators who rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what is out there watching you.
The CafFUNated Mysteries Collection
by Angela Ruth Strong
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Book 1: A Caffeine Conundrum. Solving a murder mystery is harder when you don’t trust your partner…or their taste in beverages.
Book2: A Cuppa Trouble. Can a couple of baristas chase down a car thief without spilling a drop of their favorite drink?
Book 3: A Latte Difficulty. Can two baristas track down a gunman after the espresso shot heard ‘round the world?
Book 4: A Mug of Mayhem Book. When their wedding venue becomes a crime scene, the bride and groom are in for a real trick-or-treat.
Harmony and Disharmony
by Bill Hiatt
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Orpheus is not interested in inheriting his father’s throne. He wants nothing more than to use music to bring joy to his fellow mortals. Jason believes that nothing is more important than wresting his father’s throne from a usurper. He wants to perform heroic feats that will earn him as much glory as possible. Under ordinary circumstances, Orpheus and Jason would probably never have met. Certainly, they would never have been allies. But scheming gods plunge them into adventures greater than either of them has ever imagined. Both of them want to achieve their respective dreams. But facing hostile armies, monsters, and even conflicts among the gods will force them into horrible dilemmas. Will they sacrifice their dreams, or will they die trying to preserve them?
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(Fateful Pathways)
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft—not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car—well, you get the idea
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney’s younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill’s missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney’s thinking things can’t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother’s trail of broken-hearted bimbos.
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(Alexandra Barnaby Mysteries)
The Heroes of Eastbrooke Series (Books 1-4)
by Juliette Duncan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From a USA Today bestselling author comes this page-turning, faith-filled romantic suspense series that will leave you guessing. For fans of Dee Henderson.
After twenty years, mystery still surrounds the death of Police Chief Stanley Carlton. His sons believe he was murdered. And now, strange things are happening in the picturesque mountainside village of Eastbrooke.
A teen is kidnapped. A body washes up in the river outside of town. A cult takes up residence in the mountains. The mountain pass offers a perfect smuggling route to the coast. Not just for drugs, but for weapons and human trafficking.
Could these happenings all be connected to their father’s murder?
Triple Strike
by Eli Evron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Recovering from a severe injury, Mossad special agent Oren is stationed as a case officer in Italy, tasked with recruiting essential covert assets.
But when one such informant provides a glance into a dangerous alliance forming in the Middle East – a cooperation centered around a complicated drug smuggling operation and united by a joint enemy – Oren is thrown right in the middle of a global conspiracy.
As Oren investigates, the drugs soon turn out to be merely a means to an elaborate narco-terrorism operation that, if successful, will result in a horrific coordinated triple terror attack against civilian targets.
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.6 #ad
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire – the fastest fighter aircraft in the world – to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs.
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(Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
The Last Shakiri
by J. H. Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dragons? Really? Giant flying things? He thought the old man finally lost his mind. The destruction of the people and places he held dear proved otherwise.
Trained by a master in the Old Ways, he sets out with skills as sharp as the sword he wields. But no amount of training can prepare anyone for coming face to face with one of Them.
What can one boy with a sword do? Use his wits and cunning to find the sorceress who created them and kill her.
Politikill
by Timothy Gene Sojka
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Take a bribe, meet your maker.
Imagine if someone recorded politicians accepting bribes. Or, an execution squad murdered corrupt legislators on camera, then broadcast politicians’ wrongdoings. What if politicians actually feared retribution for accepting payola? Consider the seismic reverberations which would occur within the DC infrastructure if politicians feared dishonesty and graft.
Could our current government still run as our founding fathers intended?
Nine Lives
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke—until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list.
First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common?
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Our Wild and Precious Lives deals with the big questions of Life, Death, Love and Loss set against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean Conflict…it also deals with the social upheaval in families and societies caused by war, on both sides…” Amazon Review
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Diamonds in the Rough
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
What would you risk if you had nothing left to lose?
Tom Logan awakens from a drug-induced coma holding a black diamond, his only clue to finding his brother gone missing in the wilds of Arkansas. He meets Amber Armstrong, neo-pop poet turned police officer, and Mary Ann, a willowy teen, as his journey begins. Their magical adventure leads them into a cloud-cloaked valley fraught with beauty, timeless mystery, and imminent peril.
Will Tom find love, redemption, and his missing brother or die facing the two things he fears most?
Saturday’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.
Zapped
by Carol Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.3 #ad
As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it’s not meant to be. While Jack goes to pick up Chinese food, Regan enters their apartment, unaware that a nervous thief, who preceded her by minutes, is hiding in the front closet. A thief who knows about a hidden safe that Regan and Jack have yet to discover. Minutes later, the blackout strikes, and both Reillys are called into action.
A new gallery in SoHo, featuring treasured glass sculptures from all over the world, has been burglarized. As head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, Jack oversees several departments. Art theft is one of them.
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(Regan Reilly Mysteries)
Rejectors
by Kyle Watson
Rating: 4.0 #ad
What would you do as last of the Rejectors? They are coming. Run.
Rejecting the system has a price, and the last rejectors are on the run and must outpace the evil forces that are hunting them. Vowing to never bend to the will of evil leader, will the rejectors be able to escape capture and avoid the delusion that overtakes those who are forced to accept the system? Wrestling with the reality that the battle is taking place in both the seen and unseen realms, the rejectors will stop at nothing to fight for their souls and lives.
The Serpent’s Mark
by S. W. Perry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
London, 1591: Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London’s lawless Bankside. But, when spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate the dubious practices of a mysterious doctor from Switzerland, Nicholas is soon embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not just the life of an innocent young patient, but the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth herself. With fellow healer and mistress of the Jackdaw tavern, Bianca Merton, again at his side, Nicholas is drawn into a sinister world of zealots, charlatans, and dangerous fanatics.
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(The Jackdaw Mysteries)
Skin and Bones
by Paul Doiron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In Skin and Bones, an original short story in the Paul Doiron’s bestselling Mike Bowditch series, the killing of a bald eagle unearths ties to a tragic case from mentor Charley Steven’s past.
When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch discovers a bullet-ridden bald eagle in the Maine woods, he is surprised by the memories it brings back for his mentor, retired warden pilot Charley Stevens. Decades earlier, Charley briefly teamed up with Mike’s father, the notorious poacher Jack Bowditch, on an unsettling case that has haunted Charley for years. The two enemies, both war veterans, found common cause over the senseless shooting of a magnificent eagle.
The Last Shakiri
by J. H. Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dragons? Really? Giant flying things? He thought the old man finally lost his mind. The destruction of the people and places he held dear proved otherwise.
Trained by a master in the Old Ways, he sets out with skills as sharp as the sword he wields. But no amount of training can prepare anyone for coming face to face with one of Them.
What can one boy with a sword do? Use his wits and cunning to find the sorceress who created them and kill her.
The Sentinels: The Complete Collection
by J. S. Scott
Rating: 4.7 #ad
This boxed set of The Sentinels includes all four books in this series . These paranormal romances contain graphic language, steamy love scenes, and lovable alpha males that also happen to be just a little bit demon.
“Absolutely Awesome! A great story it pulled me right in and I couldn’t stop reading. J.S. Scott has a definite talent for the paranormal. I hope there are more books along this line. I am a definite fan and will continue to read his stories.” by Amazon Customer
Shakeup
by Stuart Woods
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Upon returning from a dangerous coastal adventure, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some normalcy with the leading lady in his life. But when a grisly crime arrives on his doorstep, along with some suspicious new clients eager for his help, Stone realizes peace and quiet are no longer an option.
As it turns out, the mastermind behind the malfeasance rocking New York City and the nation’s capital wields a heavy hand of influence. And when Stone is unable to recruit those closest to the case to his side, he is left with few leads and a handful of dead-ends.
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(A Stone Barrington Mysteries)
Tidal Falls
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A woman and child in danger teaches Nick life is worth living.
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?