Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Handbook for Homicide
by Lorna Barrett
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Haven’t Got A Clue bookshop owner Tricia Miles’s relationship is on the rocks. After a not-so-fun vacation with her on-again-off-again lover, Marshall Cambridge, Tricia’s hoping for smooth sailing back in Stoneham. Unfortunately Booktown greets her not with blue skies but with another body.
When Tricia’s assistant manager, Pixie, finds homeless vet Susan Morris’s body behind Haven’t Got A Clue, Pixie’s checkered past makes her the prime suspect. Tricia sets out to clear Pixie’s name armed with only an anchor insignia earring found at the scene of the crime.
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(A Booktown Mysteries)
The Second Deadly Sin
by Åsa Larsson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the successful hunters are shaken by a grisly discovery.
Across in Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with frenzied brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed, her young grandson nowhere to be found. Only Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection.
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(The Arctic Murders Mysteries)
Solomon’s Compass
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When Coast Guard Commander Taylor Campbell returns to Rock Harbor, Texas, to tend to her uncle’s estate, she meets a veteran Navy SEAL, Jake Solomon, and learns her uncle didn’t drown accidentally. His murder was one in a string of murders of a group of Vietnam veterans who called themselves the Compass Points.
Before her uncle died, he sent Taylor a message with the location of his buried treasure. Unearthing it will place her squarely in the killer’s crosshairs, but she’s determined to fulfill her uncle’s last wish.
The Devil All the Time
by Donald Ray Pollock
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting.
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.”
Charles Manson’s Creepy Crawl
by Jeffrey Paul Melnick
Rating: 3.9 #ad
“Creepy crawling” was the Manson Family’s practice of secretly entering someone’s home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds. Even now, it is almost impossible to discuss the sixties, teenage runaways, sexuality, drugs, music, California, or even the concept of family without referencing Manson and his “girls.”
The Absent One
by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Copenhagen’s Detective Carl Mørck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the “new ‘it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London).
Carl Mørck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, it’s the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but it’s clear to Mørck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless woman with secrets involving certain powerful individuals, could hold the key—if Mørck can track her down before they do…
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(Department Q Mysteries)
Praetorian
by Simon Scarrow
Rating: 4.7 #ad
AD 51. Legionaries Cato and Macro have forged a bond that has survived war, rebellion and torture. Yet nothing has prepared them for a daunting mission on the deadliest battlefield of all: the bloody streets of Rome.
Traitors are threatening to plunge the Empire into bloody chaos and no one can be trusted. The Emperor has ordered Cato and Macro to go on a deadly mission, working undercover to root out the traitors before Rome tears itself apart.
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(Eagles of the Empire Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in a Scottish Garden
by Traci Hall
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the charming Scottish shire of Nairn,sweater shop owner Paislee Shaw must root out a garden variety killer. . .
Paislee’s custom sweater and yarn business, Cashmere Crush, is the sole support for not only the single mum and her ten-year-old son Brody, but also her eccentric Gramps and Wallace, their black Scottish terrier.So when her landlord, Shawn Marcus, serves her an eviction notice and then pulls a disappearing act, she’ll go to any lengths to find the man and reason with him.
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(A Scottish Shire Mysteries)
The Hangman’s Song
by James Oswald
Rating: 4.5 #ad
An Edinburgh detective suspects a rash of apparent suicides is something more sinister in this Scottish mystery thriller by the author of Book of Souls.
The body of a man is found hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force, this is a simple suicide case. But something about the scene strikes Detective Inspector Tony McLean as being off. Days later another body is found hanging from an identical rope, with a noose tied in the identical way. McLean is convinced that these people are either being murdered or somehow coerced into taking their own lives. Then a third body is found.
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(Inspector McLean Mysteries)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd & The Hollow Bundle
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.
The Hollow: A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over him, holding a revolver.
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 Quarte Mysteries)
Spirit of Gettysburg
by S. Elizabeth Calvert
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Epic…Spellbinding…Thrilling Love Story Extraordinaire! Can ghosts die twice? Apparently so! “Reached #1 in Young Adult Historical Fiction on Amazon Kindle!” Perfect for fans of Paranormal Romance, YA, Sic-fi fantasy, Historical Fiction, Alternate History and Literature
Washington, D.C. psychic to the powerful elites headstrong, vulnerable Maureen McAlister flees a contemporary, shattered life into the ghostly, loving arms of Confederate soldier Major Clayton Fontaine Douglas, her former husband and one-true-soulmate. He is the only man she loves and trusts. Clayton, an unrepentant Rebel and proud, brave officer in General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, is now a ghost stuck in time in her inherited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania estate. He is furious at God for the loss of his Country and her. He is dying again because of her. Once more she must try to save him, change his fate and rewrite karma…
The Creed Boxed Set
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Creed is a select group of former military heroes proud of their service and their skills. Recruited and conditioned into a tight unit by Annie Powell, The Creed fights crime undercover for the top levels of government. Follow Annie and her men as they complete almost impossible missions all across the county.
This Boxed Set includes Book # 1 – Pride. Book # 2 – Greed. Book # 3 – Lust. Book # 4 Envy.
Storm’s Wrath
by Mary Stone
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned…or determined to stop a killer.
Several weeks after being set up for a crime she didn’t commit and almost being killed by a fellow FBI agent in the process, Amelia Storm is ready for a new assignment. But nothing could have prepared her for what lies ahead—a spate of brutal killings so unusual the Organized Crime agent and her partner have no choice but to team up with members of Violent Crimes.
When three dismembered bodies are discovered, all evidence points to a madman…especially when a nineteen-year-old goes missing. There’s something more to the case, though. A father. A child. Scattered body parts.
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(Amelia Storm FBI Mysteries)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Dessert Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 4.2 #ad
CHRISTMAS CARAMEL MURDER Hannah and her good pal Lisa have agreed to provide all the goodies for the town’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. But before anyone can say “Bah, humbug!”
CHRISTMAS CAKE MURDER Hannah’s life matches the hectic December hustle and bustle of Lake Eden when she agrees to help recreate a spectacular Christmas Ball in honor of Essie Granger, an elderly local in hospice care…
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(A Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
Three Days Clueless
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Mylas Grey is determined to find the person who shot a politician in broad daylight. There’s just one problem. The killer left no clues behind. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Mylas gets involved in an intriguing case of MURDER . . . When Mylas arrives in his hometown to spend time with Whitney, he agrees to help his father, a local private detective, examine the files of a politician who was murdered in cold blood.
Mylas gets involved in an intriguing case of murder with NO CLUES . . . The wife of the slain politician believes her husband’s murder is connected to his duties as a state legislator, but the police find no clues to his murder and no evidence to support her claim.
Mylas gets involved in an intriguing case of murder with no clues BUT ONE . . .
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(Mylas Grey Mysteries)
Six Rooms
by Gemma Amor
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome, all, to the Sunshire Chateau: Lestershire’s premier tourist attraction. It sits high on a hill overlooking town, shrouded by tall trees and rumors of murder, scandal and intrigue. Tickets are hard to come by, so hold yours close, else the Tour Guide may not let you in. And that would be a pity, for there are so many things to see within these walls–history, glamor, and riches beyond your wildest imagination. Just remember the following rules: don’t wander off alone, don’t be rude to the Guide, and don’t, whatever you do, touch the valuables.
Because the ghosts don’t like it when you touch their things…
Dream Shatter
by Ann Hunter
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Circle is robbing the dreams of its citizens.
In Logan Kent’s world, disease, hunger, and war have all been resolved by the dreams of its citizens thanks to nanobots developed and implanted into everyone as newborns. At least, that’s how it seems…
Now The Circle wants Logan to join their fold and continue the utopia they’ve created. He has no reason to distrust his parents – high ranking members in The Circle – until he meets Reina, a girl from the exiled faction “Anyone,” who refuse to give up their free will…
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(Dream Runners Mysteries)
Quilting Calamity
by Kathryn Mykel
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A Quilting calamity and a string of clues. Can Alex untangle the knots before she’s keeled?
After the death of her beloved grandmother, Alex Baily’s life is left in tatters. As she struggles to stitch things back together, she takes solace in one final gift—a cruise— booked before the quilting matriarch’s death. To weave the quilting community back together, Alex convinces her friends on Spruce Street to join her on the cruise.
With all hands on deck, a mysterious quilt and an unknown destination, she must trust that everything will go according to the plan. Until a death onboard the Tranquility puts a wrinkle in Alex’s idyllic quilting vacation.
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(Quilting Cozy Mysteries)
Far Gone
by Danielle Girard
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the USA Today bestselling author of White Out comes a story of two heroines with shattered pasts and a town with blood on its hands.
When a North Dakota couple is shot down in their home in cold blood, the sleepy town of Hagen wakes with a jolt. After all, it’s usually such a peaceful place. But Detective Kylie Milliard knows better.
Despite not handling a homicide investigation in years, Kylie is on the case. A drop of blood found at the scene at first blush promises to be her best evidence.
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(Badlands Thriller Mysteries)
The Three Kitties That Saved My Life
by Michael Meyer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A true romance memoir. “This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.” When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet dating, brought love, romance, and laughter back into my life.
If you love reading feel-good memoirs, then don’t miss THE THREE KITTIES THAT SAVED MY LIFE, where “Mike Meyer pens a tender tale of love, loss, and renewal. The depth of emotion is palpable…The Three Kitties will tug at readers’ heartstrings, as they ride through the emotional highs and lows of Mike Meyer’s remarkable story.” – InD’tale Magazine
Dead Man’s Ransom
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael’s sense of justice—and his heart.
By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote’s ransom. What no one expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by cupid’s arrow.
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(The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Mysteries)
Beware False Tigers
by Frank Forencich
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The world is full of tigers, but only some of them are real. Learn their ways and you’ll become stronger, wiser, and more resilient.
The standard narrative tells us that stress is an individual problem with individual solutions. It’s a lifestyle issue, a medical condition, and a challenge to our personal well-being. But the standard narrative gets it wrong. In fact, stress is a systemic, psychosocial problem and a global health issue. It’s a shared predicament that demands collective action. The good news is that stress can actually be the key to unlocking a more functional and fulfilling future for all of us.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Banana Slit
by Angela K. Ryan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The grand opening of Anna McBride’s seaside ice cream shop is anything but sweet.
After the tragic death of her Irish twin sister, Bella, Anna needed a radical change. So, she closed her counseling practice in Boston to embark on a new adventure as an ice cream shop owner.
Now all she wants is to settle into her new town, attempt to turn her black thumb green, and build her ice cream shop into a community hub that hosts quality entertainment and group gatherings – just like Bella had often fantasized about doing before her fateful boating accident…
Bella’s body was never found. Could she still be alive?
The Possessed
by Kirk Kilgrave
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Jocelyn doesn’t believe in the supernatural, but she senses that something is in her home.
When her mother and sister begin using a Ouija board to contact their dead father, Jocelyn worries that it may lead to horrible consequences. Like the footsteps outside her bedroom door late at night. Or the pounding in the walls. Maybe even the reason why her sister is trying to ruin her life.
Jocelyn finds a rational explanation for every strange incident until logic breaks down and sinister events ratchet up, convincing her that an evil entity has infested her home. With the help of a pair of paranormal investigators named Eloise and Nona, Jocelyn hopes to defeat the malevolent entity before it destroys her family.
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(Sadistic Souls Mysteries)
Balloon Body Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.9 #ad
When Rik Patience – who has no patience – trips over the body of a murder victim sticking out from under the envelope of a hot air balloon, it turns into a sometimes hilarious, sometimes terrifying, sometimes heartbreaking ride.
Rik and her over-sixties group of fellow sleuths endeavor to solve a mystery that even the sheriff’s department can’t solve. Things never go well for Rik in life or love in spite of her best intentions. She finds herself on the wrong side of her Mason, Texas, friends when she becomes “public enemy number one” after refusing to help with a festival that will bring tourists into town—but also promotes alcoholic beverages…
Until Thy Wrath Be Past
by Åsa Larsson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.
Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream?
Joining forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson will need all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.
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(The Arctic Murders Mysteries)
Twice a Daughter
by Julie Ryan McGue
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers—which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.
To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents aren’t happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parents—and that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background.
Leaving Annalise
by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A new life on the horizon. An old flame at the door. When a dead body turns up in the freezer, Katie’s island lifestyle turns stormy.
Katie Connell’s new life in St. Marcos is cruising right along. She’s got a restaurateur boyfriend, a singing venture with her best friend, and a new streak of sobriety. Even better, she’s purchased a rainforest home that came complete with a centuries-old house ghost. With her legal career well behind her, she’s hopeful her new chapter will lead her to happiness.
But when a man from her past enters the picture, a murder in her boyfriend’s restaurant and a child in need throw everything into chaos…
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(A Katie Connell Caribbean Mysteries)
Daughters of Dusk
by Emma Shelford
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Switching bodies was a piece of cake. Too bad my new body is already occupied.
I was a successful woman in my mid-fifties, a champion of vulnerable women and a seeker of the arcane. From a troubled past, I earned poise, confidence, and experience. Until an explosion killed me.
It’s a shock when a friend’s desperate spell forces my soul into a nearby woman’s dying body. But I won’t say no to fewer aches, unlined skin, and a youthful renewal of my old ambitions, even if the body’s emotional baggage is heavy. The problem is, an elemental spirit took possession of that same body during the explosion, and spirits don’t make good roommates.
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(Magical Morgan Mysteries)
Jack and Mary
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Jack Osborn is on his ranch, teaching his son how to ride a horse. His wife and daughter are in the house.
The peace is shattered when Frank Ridge and his gang ride through the ranch and gun down the whole family. Jack wakes up later in pain from bullet holes through his shoulder.
Jack’s family has been murdered by the gang, and for what? Jack knows that he has to go after these outlaws and bring them to justice, whatever it takes.
Matters of the Heart
by Ashley Farley
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The genie is out of the bottle. After decades of secrecy, Stella has finally made her resort’s natural hot springs available to guests. Little does she know, the waters have magical healing powers. Not only do the springs cure physical ailments, but matters of the heart as well. When word gets out, she has a riot of opportunity seekers on her hands.
Presley could use a bit of that healing magic. She returns to the inn for an unexpected visit, pregnant, planning to stay for the summer, and refusing to talk about her new husband. Did she leave Everett’s concert tour because of the pregnancy? Or is there trouble in paradise already?
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(Hope Springs Series)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thirteen days before Christmas, a letter arrives in the mail—a letter that was never meant for Candy Friessen. When she opens it, she discovers a lie that rocks her world, and she begins to question everything she and Neil have created together, including his love for her and their family.
Seven days before Christmas, Candy’s heart is breaking. She makes plans to leave, but when a call one night alerts all the Friessens that Becky, their mother, is fighting for her life in the hospital, they rush to her bedside without a second thought. Faced with uncertainty, Brad, Neil, Jed, and their wives are together for Christmas, but there’s no happy celebration, no gifts piled under the tree.
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(The Friessens Series)