Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Book of Candlelight
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the new Secret, Book, and Scone Society novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams, the rain in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, has been relentless—and a flood of trouble is about to be unleashed . . .
Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds new customers for her store, Miracle Books. Since a little rain never hurt anyone, Nora rides her bike over to the flea market one sodden day and buys a bowl from Danny, a Cherokee potter. But the next day, after Miracle River overflows its banks, and Danny’s body is found floating within the churning waters, Nora decides it’s time for the Secret, Book, and Scone Society to spring into action.
A Ruin of Roses
by K.F. Breene
Rating: 4.3 #ad
I could save him, but he would ruin me.
The beast. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. The dragon prince. He has suffered a fate worse than death. We all have. A curse put upon us by the mad king.
We are a kingdom locked in time. Shifters unable to feel our animals. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. The last dragon shifter.
He’s our hope. He’s my nightmare.
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(Deliciously Dark Fairytales Mysteries)
The Best of Friends
by Lucinda Berry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An unthinkable tragedy forever changes a group of teens and turns family against family in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that begs to be read in one sitting.
Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent’s nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak.
Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb?
Journeys
by Jeanne Roland
Rating: 4.9 #ad
A barracks full of beautiful boys. A girl in disguise, living among them.
It’s the 14th century, and the longbow is king. But in the northern European principality of Ardennes, archery isn’t just the nation’s defense. It’s the national obsession.
MEET THE JOURNEYS
12 young Journeyman archers, the best in the country
2 years of public competitions, in which looks count almost as much as ability
6 will win a coveted membership in the Archers’ Guild of St. Sebastian
1 will become the prince’s new Guardsman
Unsigned Card Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s a hoot-and-a-half when Rik Patience – who has no patience – sets out to discover why a “hot” guy at her church refuses to sign the pastor’s birthday card and ends up as a suspect in a murder investigation.
Rik engages the over-sixties members of the Closure Club book reading and mystery-solving group – who refuse to let the grey streaks in their hair define them – in her quest to answer the question – why does her secret heartthrob refuse to sign anything? Is he in witness protection, or is he a criminal?
Before Rik solves that mystery, she finds a body behind his house; is tackled by a ‘black bear’; is accused of poisoning an obnoxious woman who attends her church; and is threatened with the confiscation of her wild animal rescues—a fox, raccoon, jaguarondi, squirrel, and raven.
Twentieth Anniversary Screening
by Jeff Strand
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This mockumentary-style dark comedy recounts the grisly events surrounding the terrible slasher flick THE ROOFER, remembered only because an obsessed fan tried to reenact the murders as they played out on the screen. When the same theater shows the film twenty years later, will the warnings that this is a really, really bad idea be justified?
Bright Triad
by Daniel Zeigler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A gene therapy project to cure the criminal mind. A monster on the loose. A desperate race to understand.
35-year-old philosophy professor Rand Aroyan is a smart, witty rising star in the field of medical ethics. But when Bright Triad–a project to cure psychopaths with mRNA therapy–instead creates a murderer, Rand becomes obsessed with identifying the killer.
As he teams with a homicide detective, a psychologist, and a charismatic ex-pastor, Rand is forced to grapple with questions of faith and reason, science and religion–and to confront his own deepest fears.
Ranging from funny to thought-provoking to chilling, Bright Triad will appeal to fans of speculative, psychological, and suspense fiction.
Don’t Stop Me
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fifteen years ago, Vic McCabe was headed down a one-way road to destruction with the love of his life. But then the unthinkable happened, a mistake that changed their lives forever.
Successful billionaire contractor Vic McCabe is a man every woman wants, but he gives his heart to no one. However, one day a reporter shows up, asking questions about a past he’s buried, a mistake he made fifteen years ago that could destroy his future and that of the woman he’s tried to forget.
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(The McCabe Brothers)
Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)
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(The Murderbot Diaries Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
What the Cat Dragged In
by Miranda James
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Charlie has always believed that his grandfather had sold his house to his longtime tenant, Martin Hale. So when Martin dies, Charlie is surprised to discover the house was not left to Martin but instead belongs to Charlie. As he and Diesel check out the house he remembers fondly from his childhood, he is pleasantly surprised that it is in better condition than expected. That is, until they find a literal skeleton in a closet.
While the sheriff’s department investigates the mysterious remains, Charlie digs deeper into the past for clues to the identity of the bones and why they are there. But the cold case heats up quickly when Martin’s grandson is found dead on the farm.
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(Cat in the Stacks Mysteries)
White Lies
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigned herself to the fact that she may never find a suitable mate. A human lie detector, any falsehood – no matter how subtle – sets her blood racing. And most people, to one degree or another, hide behind a façade.
Including her business titan father’s new “consultant,” Jake Salter. His careful conversation walks a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. But it is with his help that Clare begins to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder involving the powerful Arizona family that she just became a part of seven months ago.
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(Arcane Society Mysteries)
Time to Kill
by Paul Gitsham
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Seven days until the killer strikes again – but who is next?
DCI Warren Jones is deep into the investigation into an apparent murder-suicide when another case is thrust onto his desk. Winnie Palmer, missing for two months, has been found dead, her body stripped and propped against a tree in the woods.
Two cases are more than enough to handle – but things get even harder for the team when they realise the cases might be linked. And when a third suspicious death is added to the pile, it raises a horrible question. Is there a serial killer on the loose?
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(DCI Warren Jones Mysteries)
The Bodies Left Behind
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?
Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit.
Garden of Forbidden Secrets
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.5 #ad
So you want to play with magic?
There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room victim in the courtyard of the forbidden Lalaurie mansion.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
The Old Success
by Martha Grimes
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her?
While Macalvie stands stumped in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury, twenty miles away on Land’s End, is at the Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook—well, nearly every case. Bronwell discloses that there was one he once missed.
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(The Richard Jury Mysteries)
Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order…
Bear Ranger Guardians Collection
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Some want revenge – others are tired of living a lie. When wolf shifters face the enemy – they’re met with blood-pumping bear rangers – seducing them into forbidden love.
“I have read everyone one of these books. There is a mystery that runs through the series and isn’t solved until the last book. Each male shifter is protective and hunky and Each female shifter is strong and smart. Through all the books the couples have to face prejudices from their clans, but their love for each other conquered all.” by Amazon Customer
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Wears White
by Stephanie Blackmoore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A bridal party is less than festive when one their own drops dead at a food tasting in the second book in the series that started with Engaged in Death.
For wedding planner Mallory Shepard, murder isn’t on the agenda . . .
Mallory hopes to unveil her new B&B just in time for her first ceremony as a wedding planner. The renovations to Thistle Park—the mansion she inherited in small-town Port Quincy, Pennsylvania—are almost complete. But what Mallory didn’t plan on is the bride’s aunt being poisoned at the wedding tasting and her perfect venue becoming a crime scene.
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(A Wedding Planner Mysteries)
ONCE UPON A MURDEROUS DELUSION
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The year is 1980 in a small, sleepy New England town. Out of nowhere, a series of devastating murders threaten the safety and well-being of the community. A serial killer has begun a deadly game of catch-me-if-you-can with local police, who have dubbed the carnage, “The Mommy Murders.”
Frightened residents are certain the violent rape/murders are in some way connected to the psychiatric unit of Parkhirst General Hospital. Nella, a nurse angst-ridden by her service during the Vietnam War, is new to the area and the hospital. She joins the tight-knit group of nurses on the evening shift. Val, the leader of the group, with her own history of trauma, believes it stems from the prejudice their patients suffer from a community unsympathetic to mental illness. Or is evil closer to home than they think?
Lion in the Valley
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses—and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death—have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead.
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(An Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
No More Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Wedding Planner Aria Scirocco has her life on track after her divorce. She’s engaged to a stable and pragmatic man. Her company is doing well, and her biggest client is getting married this weekend. Nothing can jeopardize all her hard work. Except a snowstorm derails her plans and dumps her ex-husband and their unfinished business in her path.
Hawk Egan wants his ex-wife back. When the storm strands Aria, he jumps at the opportunity to come to her rescue. Getting stuck in a hotel without power is a bonus. As long as the snow continues to fall, he has a shot to make her love him again.
For the first time in her life, Aria takes a chance and invites Hawk into her bed. But when the snow stops, and the power comes back on, she will have to choose between the man who lights the way, and the one who has left her in the dark.
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(Winter at the Shore Mysteries)
Burning Down Boise
by Franklin Horton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sometimes the story of an apocalypse isn’t one of tragedy, but one of opportunity…
Dan Slaughter has given up on appearances. With his wife dead and his kids grown, he’s slowly reverting back to the east Tennessee boy he used to be three decades earlier. He quit cutting his hair and started smoking pot. He drinks when he wants to and sings along with the classic songs of his lost youth.
When his childhood friend Carl dies suddenly, Dan agrees to help Carl’s mother with the estate, even when it means traveling across the country to Boise, Idaho. Worse yet, Dan has to fly and that’s no easy task for a paranoid hillbilly not used to following rules.
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(The Way of Dan Mysteries)
The Naked Viscount
by Sally MacKenzie
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Lady formerly on the prowl for a husband lands herself a prowler in this Regency romance by the author of The Naked Baron.
After eight Seasons in London, Lady Jane Parker-Roth is ready to quit the dull search for a husband in favor of more exciting pursuits. So when she encounters an intruder in her host’s townhouse, she’s not about to let the scoundrel escape. Until she discovers she’s wrestling a viscount—Edmund Smyth, the one noble she wouldn’t mind meeting in the dark. And when their struggle shatters a randy statue of the god Pan, even more mischief ensues . . .
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(Naked Nobility Mysteries)
The Hometown Hero
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eighteen years ago his father disappeared, and Owen swore to keep that night a secret. But sometimes, secrets get revealed in the most scandalous of ways.
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a shocking O’Connell family novel that is filled with family secrets, romance and suspense when a brother’s secret is exposed, opening up old wounds and creating a scandal that could rock the community.
“As the mystery of what happened at the school deepens, loyalties to family and friends are tested.” Rebmay
Owen O’Connell has always been the responsible older brother.
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
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.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
In Hot Water
by Kate Kingsbury
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint, English-accented shop on the Oregon coast. But on the eve of the tearoom’s second anniversary, the dream turns nightmarish when a man falls to his death from a hotel balcony.
The body belongs to Dean Ramsey, ex-husband of Vivian’s assistant, Jenna. Detective Tony Messina quickly zeroes in on Jenna as prime suspect, since she was seen leaving the hotel shortly before the body was found.
A Beaufont Collection
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Mysterious Plato: Who would suspect that one of the most powerful entities in the world is a black and white cat? Few know that most historical events in the last several centuries were orchestrated by this innocuous feline. Plato isn’t an ordinary cat. He’s a magical lynx with extraordinary powers…
The Fantastic Lunis: Dragons were created to bring justice to the world—but some do way more than that. When Lunis, the wise-cracking, bad joke-telling dragon, is summoned to Mexico, he doesn’t hesitate to answer the call. It just so happens that he’s been lured there under false pretenses.
The Phenomenal Faraday: A mystery like no other can only be solved by one. A talking squirrel. When a scientific mystery comes into question, there’s no one better for the case than Faraday—the squirrel who knows the complexities hidden from most.
Waverly Hills Incursion
by Bryce Warren
Rating: 3.9 #ad
“Whatever roams the hallways up on the Hill . . . it isn’t alone.”
Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been converted into apartments. But only half of it is completed because of the bad economy. Ben Clausen, an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville, is moving in because the rent is so cheap. There’s a reason why. Waverly Hills is still haunted.
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
by Rhys Bowen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she’s proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway’s brightest stars and Fifth Avenue’s richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she’s going to work more than one case at a time, then she’s going to need some help. Molly’s beau, the recently and wrongly suspended police captain Daniel Sullivan, would make an ideal associate, but before they can agree on the terms of his employment, they stumble upon a young woman lying unconscious in the middle of a snow-covered Central Park.
Double Mint
by Gretchen Archer
Rating: 4.7 #ad
NEW MONEY, OLD SINS, AND BACK TO JAIL
It’s convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino, and Davis Way barely notices. It’s hard to pay attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard. But when Special Events Coordinator Holder Darby walks out the backdoor just as five hundred Alabama bankers pour in the front, Davis steps up. Her reward? A cat.
(A cat?) Not only has the convention director vanished, but a Bellissimo guest is missing. One who forgot to pack the million dollars he left in the bathtub. It looks like our redhead newlywed Super Secret Spy’s lazy summer is over for sure when the Bellissimo vault is robbed.
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(A Davis Way Crime Caper Mysteries)
The Murder List
by Jackie Kabler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The brand new psychological thriller from the author of Am I Guilty, The Perfect Couple and The Happy Family
When Mary receives a blank diary as a present, she thinks nothing of it. Until she opens the diary, and sees it’s not blank after all…
1st January MURDER LISA, OXFORD
1st February MURDER JANE, BIRMINGHAM
1st March MURDER DAVID, CARDIFF
1st April MURDER MARY, CHELTENHAM
Is this a sick joke? But…it’s the end of January now. And a woman called Lisa was murdered in Oxford on 1st January.
Could there really be a killer out there, planning to commit a new murder each month? And is the Mary due to be killed on 1st April her?
Redemption
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
She tried to stop the blood, but it only flowed faster. “Shannon, find Noble Scott. Tell him what’s happened. He needs to know that Creed Conway is alive.”
“Yes. I promise I’ll find him.”
Fourteen years ago, Creed Conway took everything from him. Today, Noble Scott will fight to stop him from doing it again.
Creed Conway had a reputation to uphold. Pain. Death. Destruction.
Revel In You
by Scarlett Se Leva
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Simone Goodman. The only girl I’ve loved. Until she ripped my heart out.
It’s been five years since I’ve laid eyes on her. Five years since she was mine.
I told myself never again. But truth be told I still yearn to indulge in her. To get lost in her touch.
I plan to own the one thing she’s denied me. Her heart.