Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Street of the Five Moons
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff — and she’s a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside down.
Vicky gasped at the sight of the exquisite gold pendant her boss at Munich’s National Museum held in his hand. The Charlemagne talisman replica, along with a note in hieroglyphs, was found sewn into the suit pocket of an unidentified man found dead in an alley.
Trust Me
by Brenda Novak
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She won’t be a victim ever again . . .
Four years ago, Skye Kellerman was attacked in her own bed. She managed to fend off her knife-wielding assailant, but the trauma changed everything about her life. As a result of that night, she joined two friends—also survivors—in starting The Last Stand, an organization to help victims of crime.
Now, Skye’s would-be rapist is getting out of prison. She knows that he hasn’t forgotten that her testimony cost him his reputation—and his freedom.
Elvenshore: The Complete Series
by Clark Graham
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the first meeting of Dwarf and man in the Westwood Forest, the series covers four lands and many races, including; Dwarves, Elves, Druids, Dragons, Valkyrie, Satyr, Minotaur, Trolls, and a whole host of other races. With epic battles and large armies.
“Human, Dwarves, Valkeries, an Elf, conflicts, what more could you want?
A really good read. I read it straight through and enjoyed it every minute. The conflicts between the different factions and their resolutions are the keystone of the story line. The idea of doing what is right is prevalent throughout. Good prevails over evil all the time. It would seem that the ending of this story suggests further adventures and I look forward to reading what they may be. Thank you for the good read” by Amazon Customer
Uniform Justice
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy.
Brunetti’s sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician—a man of impeccable integrity, all too rare in politics…
Questions for a Dead Man
by Alex Gray
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a prominent MSP goes missing, DSI William Lorimer wastes no time in investigating. Robert Truesdale was fronting the controversial campaign to legalise drugs in Scotland, and his enemies were numerous. With every passing day, the chances of finding him alive grow slimmer.
Then the worst happens. A car bomb explodes in a nearby village, and the blackened body pulled from the wreckage appears to be Truesdale’s. Yet there are details that don’t add up and soon Lorimer is questioning whether the victim was all he claimed to be.
Only the Dead
by Jack Carr
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release at Regular Price. Navy SEAL James Reece faces a devastating global conspiracy in this high-adrenaline thriller that is ripped from the headlines—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the top writers of political thrillers” (Bookreporter), Jack Carr.
In 1980, a freshman congressman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating over four decades later.
Now, with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control.
Misfire
by Tammy Euliano
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A device that can save a life is also one that can end it
Kadence, a new type of implanted defibrillator, misfires in a patient visiting University Hospital for a routine medical procedure – causing the heart rhythm problem it’s meant to correct. Dr. Kate Downey, an experienced anesthesiologist, resuscitates the patient, but she grows concerned for a loved one who recently received the same device – her beloved Great-Aunt Irm.
When a second device misfires, Kate turns to Nikki Yarborough, her friend and Aunt Irm’s cardiologist. Though Nikki helps protect Kate’s aunt, she is prevented from alerting other patients by the corporate greed of her department chairman.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder on the Poet’s Walk
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a southern gothic…
As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They’re everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins in the reading rooms or seeking inspiration strolling the Poet’s Walk, a series of trails named after famous authors. But the Tennyson Trail leads to a grim surprise: a woman’s corpse drifting in a rowboat on a lake, posed as if she were “The Lady of Shallot.”
Left You Dead
by Peter James
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they always do – with a long drive, a visit to a country house and a quick stop at the local supermarket on the way home.
But this Sunday ends differently – because while Niall waits and waits in the car park for Eden to pick up supplies, Eden never returns. She’s not waiting for him at home, and none of their family or friends have heard from her.
The Renegades
by Renata Riva
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three princes fighting for a crown. Three princesses fighting for their lives.
When Iiriniss rescues a severely wounded prince from an ambush, she fears that nothing good will come of it. She and her sisters know his father, King Jethron Bloodthorne, too well since he took everything from them—their family, their land, their freedom.
Iiriniss has sworn to avenge her father, but she can’t let Prince Terven die. She has a debt to repay to him. And the more time she spends with him, the more she realises that he is not like his father and his two brothers.
An Unfinished Murder
by Ann Granger
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this traditional mystery set in a small English village, detectives from two popular series team up to solve a two decades old missing persons case. Mitchell and Markby come out of retirement to crack a cold case . . .
As young children, Josh Browning and his sister, Dilys, stumbled across a dead body while playing on the outskirts of their Cotswold village. Terrified by what they’d seen, neither of them told a soul. Now, twenty years later, Josh finds the dead woman’s charm bracelet among his sister’s possessions.
Who better to tell than his trusted friend, the man he gardens for, retired Superintendent Alan Markby? As Markby listens to Josh’s confession, alarm bells start to ring. The dates and details tie in with a missing person case that was never solved.
American Narcos
by Brick Top
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What would you do with forty-million dollars?
Three small-time American weed dealers embark on an adventure into the Colombian jungle. They struggle in Florida to survive and turn to the only option available. It’s the beginning of the 1970s, and marijuana is already flooding the Floridian market. The first trickles of cocaine appear in places frequented by the rich and famous. The coke industry was about to explode.
The curious young Americans begin a small business smuggling marijuana from Colombia to North America, which blossoms and grows until it stretches across the globe. Rory Banks, Jack Rivers, and Will Penny embark on a journey that takes them farther than ever imagined. Chaos follows as they fly around the world, starting cocaine businesses wherever they touch down….
The World of Tiers Volume Two
by Philip José Farmer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From a multiple Hugo Award winner: Four more novels in a brilliantly imaginative series.
In the second half of the World of Tiers series, Kickaha embarks on a journey to the eternally shifting landscape of the Lavalite World of Lord Urthona—and the ultimate clash with his arch nemesis.
On Earth, Kickaha and the Lord Anana pursue a rogue Beller called Thabuuz. They thought they had wiped out the last of the biolab-generated artificial intelligences created by the Lords, but it seems one has escaped through a portal to Southern California. Thabuuz must be found before he can spawn more Bellers and revive their war against the Lords. But even though he came from Earth fifty years ago, Kickaha no longer recognizes his former home, now ruled by a hostile Lord known as the Red Orc.
Buried Angels
by Patricia Gibney
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Faye Baker discovers a fragile child’s skull behind the walls of her new home, Detective Lottie Parker is called to investigate. The house has been owned for years by the family of Faye’s boyfriend Jeff, so when Jeff starts acting suspiciously, Lottie wonders what he might be hiding…
Lottie doesn’t have long to dig deeper before a child’s bones are found by eleven-year-old Gavin on nearby railway tracks. The bones don’t match the small skull behind the walls, but Lottie can’t ignore the coincidence. Someone out there must be missing their loved ones and it’s up to her to put right a terrible wrong.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Editor Kill Fee
by G G Collins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Book Publishing is Murder!
Mystery editor Taylor Browning is back with her cats and this time the “cantankerous cat” Oscar and new brother Cheddar get in on the action.
The president of the Santa Fe Wine and Crime book club takes a wrong turn. To her horror she finds herself on one of the most deadly roads in the area. She doesn’t make her meeting and no one knows what has happened to her.
Tell Me
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A reporter and her cop fiancé dig into the shocking truth of a cold murder case in this Southern thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O’Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. Though she swore she was innocent, the prosecution insisted that Blondell did it all to be with her lover. But Blondell’s son has now recanted his crucial testimony.
Inception
by K.J. Gillenwater
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Aliens have arrived… and this isn’t the first time.
When expert Navy linguist and cryptographer Charlie Cutter is recruited into a shadowy wing of the NCIS, she’s tasked with unravelling a mysterious ancient text that has puzzled researchers for centuries. Charlie isn’t eager to revisit her previous failures… but when she discovers the same puzzling language in top-secret photographs, she finds herself roped into a job that could make or break her young career.
After a strange pod crashes to earth during a violent storm, Charlie and her small team uncover an incredible truth: aliens have landed on earth – and not for the first time.
Distant Relations
by Rebecca Forster
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A private plane explodes killing Finn’s estranged uncle and his childhood love. Coming to grips with the tragedy, Finn O’Brien puts the accident behind him until a misdirected insurance settlement, a federal investigation, and an arrogant ATF agent pique his curiosity and provoke his anger. The explosion was no accident, the people on board had histories, and Finn O’Brien’s assistance in the investigation is not wanted. Unable to find justice, Finn goes rogue, incurring the ire of everyone while his investigation leads him through a deadly labyrinth created by big business and personal passions. In the end Finn discovers that his life, and the lives of those he loves, are in the hands of a distant and deadly relation.
Skharr DeathEater Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A lone DeathEater has forsaken his clan.
Leaving behind his previous life, Skharr starts building a future next to a dangerous forest in an unknown land. He tells himself it is better than taking gold for questionable reasons.
A lone old man travelling with a donkey offers him a choice: Continue this farm life, or trade him Skharr’s just finished home and tilled land for a map. A map that Skharr can use to live large for years… If he survives.
The old peddler watches him…
The Killer Confession
by Matt Shaw
Rating: 4.3 #ad
After the death of her mother, and the change in her father’s personality, Debra knew she couldn’t stay at home. She needed to get out of there and start a new life, someplace where she wasn’t known. With limited money in her back pocket and a young head on her shoulders, her new life was never going to be as easy as she thought it could have been and soon she finds herself trapped in a world she wants no part of.
The Felse Investigations Collection
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.3 #ad
From the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, the first three mysteries in the Edgar Award–winning series about an English policeman and his son.
In the English village of Comerford, just on the border of Wales, it’s Det. Sgt. George Felse’s duty to keep the peace – and keep his fourteen-year-old son, Dominic, out of harm’s way . . .
Fallen into the Pit,
Death and the Joyful Woman,
Flight of a Witch
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Where Secrets Sleep
by Marta Perry
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In small town Laurel Ridge, not everything is as simple as it appears
After a terrible betrayal, Allison Standish flees Philadelphia for the small Amish village of Laurel Ridge to claim an unexpected inheritance. Allison intends to sell the mansion housing various shops on Main Street—until she meets Nick Whiting, a single father and tenant of Blackburn House, who challenges everything she believes about her estranged grandmother and the Amish community.
You Will Know Vengeance
by W.A. Pepper, Will Pepper
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A government plot. A con who holds all the cards. Can a young man protecting his fellow inmates stop a killer
without losing his soul?
Skilled hacker Tanto finds inner quiet in the ways of Bushido. So, after SWAT drags him to a hidden compound to entrap other code jockeys, he spends the next eight years drawing on his inner strength to bring honor to his peers. But when the peaceful warrior takes a terrified and badly beaten newcomer under his wing, he’s shaken to learn the kid was brutalized by an old nemesis.
“A crazy, twisted story.” – J.R., GoodReads
Earthdivers
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stephen Graham Jones—New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw—makes his ongoing comics debut with Earthdivers!
The year is 2112, and it’s the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of outcast Indigenous survivors who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the middle of the desert and figured out where the world took a sharp turn for the worst: America…
Post After Post-Mortem
by E.C.R. Lorac, Martin Edwards
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don’t try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood.”
The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews, and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a rare convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth—middle sister who writes “books which are just books”— decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life, while the rest of the brood scatter to the winds again.
The Relics of Illayan
by Kathryn Knowles
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The engrossing, action-packed first book in an epic fantasy adventure trilogy full of complex, morally-grey characters, mysterious magic, and romance.
In the stillness, a power wakes
Caerlon is a kingdom where the power of Resonance has long been bound to a single bloodline, a single all-powerful ruler. Now, for the first time in centuries, the magic has been divided.
On the night of the new king’s coronation, something causes his magic to fracture, and Catanya, a young woman living on the outskirts of Caerlon discovers the long-kept secret of her connection to the throne.
The Girl Outside
by James Caine
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Her daughter has a dark secret. One that will turn their perfect small town upside down. Now she’s missing.
Mandy Knox can’t shake the gut wrenching feeling that something sinister happened to her teenage daughter. Everyone, including the police, insist she’s a runaway.
Desperate, Mandy tries to find her but only manages to discover the web of lies her daughter left behind.
Mandy won’t stop until she finds out what happened, But everything changes when she opens her front door.
The 23rd Midnight
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Brand New Release at REGULAR PRICE. The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!
An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women’s Murder Club’s past – with devastating new twists.
Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own.