Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Six Letter Word for Death
by Patricia Moyes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s a slow day at Scotland Yard, so Inspector Henry Tibbett takes a busman’s holiday, immersing himself in the world of puzzling puzzlers. The hijinks kick off with an amusing gift: Someone unnamed has sent Henry the beginnings of a crossword puzzle. Even more mysterious: The clues point to the group of mystery writers to whom Henry has pledged to give a presentation. Most mysterious of all: None of the writers are who they claim to be, and one is a murderer. Which one? For that you’ll need to solve the puzzle. Six across and then down, down, down.
The Final Detail
by Harlan Coben
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client, a fallen baseball star attempting a comeback. Myron is determined to prove Esperanza’s innocence—even if she won’t speak to him on the advice of her lawyer, who warns Myron to keep away from both the case and his client. But Myron is already too close, too involved, and has too much at stake. And the closer Myron gets to the truth, the more the evidence points to the only viable suspect besides Esperanza: Myron himself.
Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape
by Gregory Benford
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It’s 2002, and Charlie, in his late forties, is a bit of a sad-sack professor of history going through an unpleasant divorce. While flipping the cassette of an audiobook he gets into a car accident with a truck, and wakes up, fully aware as his adult mind, in his sixteen-year-old body in 1968.
Charlie does the thing we all imagine: he takes what he remembers of the future and uses it for himself in his present, the past. He becomes a screenwriter, anticipating the careers of Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, and then, in a 1980s life of excess, he dies, and wakes up again in his bedroom at sixteen in 1968.
The Night Creature at Storne Hope
by Catherine Coulter
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Thomas Oliver Maxwell Strickland (Max), the newly minted 6th Earl of Storne, wakes in his London apartment to find a young child hiding in his armoire. The child, who calls herself Crispin, is a runaway, but refuses to tell him any more of her story. Max, hopeful to help the child, invites her to stay at his new home, Storne Hope castle.
At Belhaven, Grayson Sherbrooke and Pip are expecting a visit from P.C., Miranda, and Barnaby, who now goes by Brady since being reunited with their family. Grayson learns that Max is with them, and will be taking up residence at Storne Hope castle, which is nearby at Piper’s Hill. Grayson tells the tragic history of Storne Hope and the ghost of Lady Hilda who still roams the rooms and halls of the residence.
The Blessing Giver Complete Series
by Cindy Gunderson
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Venture into the Passage Realm and discover four stories where nothing is as it seems and love is stronger than the problems that face the protagonists.
If you enjoy romantasy, you’ll enjoy this complete series boxed set! The Blessing Giver series delivers an irresistible blend of passion and adventure that will keep you turning pages long into the night.
On the day of their birth, everyone receives two blessings and a curse…
Last Girl Ghosted
by Lisa Unger
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45
She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him—hard. It happens sometimes, a powerful connection with a perfect stranger takes you by surprise. Could it be love?
But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared—profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted.
The Orphan Chronicles
by Nita DeBorde
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In a secret research facility 200 feet below the ocean’s surface, an extraordinary experiment is taking place…
Ananya Patel is one of twelve orphans who have been raised at The Institute—a secret, underwater research facility funded and operated by billionaire philanthropist Gregory Cornelius.
While at The Institute, Ananya and the other orphans have been given regular doses of a formula that exponentially enhances a person’s natural skills and abilities. Cornelius’s vision is for the ability-enhanced orphans to be educated and trained at the Institute so they can one day “exert a virtuous and constructive influence on the world around them.”
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Bookcase
by Katherine Hall Page
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stretched almost to the limit by the capricious demands of a Boston Brahmin bride-to-be, caterer and minister’s wife Faith Fairchild faces real tragedy when she discovers the body of an elderly friend. Sarah Winslow had apparently surprised burglars ransacking her Aleford, Massachusetts, house. No sooner has Sarah been laid to rest than the Fairchilds find themselves the next target—the parsonage is stripped of all their most precious possessions. Devastated and furious, Faith takes action, scouring pawnshops, antique marts, and auctions. As she turns up some of their stolen property, she is drawn onto a dangerous path of larceny and corruption in New England’s venerable antique business—a path that soon leads Faith straight to a killer . . .
The Crow’s Call
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
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Mysterious Events Plague a Greenhouse in Pennsylvania’s Amish Country
When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family they have left. The women’s only income must come from the family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying to force them out of business.
Amy King has just lost her father and brother, and her mother needs her to help run the family’s greenhouse. It doesn’t seem fair to ask her to leave a job she loves, when there is still a sister and brother to help…
Dale Brown’s Dreamland
by Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice
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New York Times–Bestselling Authors: When terrorists take to the sea, America attacks from the air . . .
In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being built at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland . . .
As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle—a next-generation littoral warship with a full range of automated weapons systems that the enemy has dubbed “Satan’s Tail.”
Cold Judgment
by Joanne Fluke
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A dying doctor believes he must kill eight dangerous patients in this psychological thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Winter Chill.
The Perfect Cure
On the surface they are beautiful and talented. But few know of the harrowing darkness inside each of them, how close they are to losing their tenuous grip on sanity. Dr. Elias is their only hope. But he’s dying. And he’s made his cold, final judgment: those he can’t cure, he must kill.
For The Perfect Crime
2024 Before Democracy
by Tyler True
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Anthropologist Theodore Hansen discovers a magical plant in the Amazon Rainforest that has the potential to both heal and destroy society. He steals a cutting from the indigenous guardians of the plant and clones enough of it to sell to the world, becoming one of the richest humans alive.
After witnessing the corruption and greed from the most powerful governments and pharmaceutical companies on earth, he decides to use his vast fortune to start a political revolution that truly gives the power to the people…despite the danger to himself and his family.
The Vacation House
by Jane Shemilt
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PAXOS, GREECE
The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman—the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker—ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again.
LONDON, ENGLAND, TEN YEARS LATER
Snuff
by Terry Pratchett
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved and long-overdue holiday. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck—not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong—are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper.
When I Was Your Mother
by Liora Carmeli
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A mother never forgets. Maya and Gil are the picture-perfect couple: high school sweethearts with three beautiful children, a small house in the country, and seven years of blissful marriage. They really could not ask for more. But then Maya sees a report about a car crash, and a ten-year-old orphaned boy, and everything changes.
Because underneath the beautiful love story lies a secret. A ten-year-old secret that Maya had kept hidden since she was eighteen, when she decided to put her first child up for adoption. Now, a decade later, she is certain – the child in the report is her son.
Flow
by Fred Hilgenfeldt
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Achieving a State of Flow in a World full of Walls
How can we learn to deal with our experiences?
How does our past influence us?
Who are we, at our core?
What is our purpose?
This book seeks to answer these questions, illustrating the research conducted with the author’s personal experiences. Amazingly, all answers seem to be connected to one principle: the ancient Greek saying of ‘Panta Rhei’ – that life is ever-flowing and ever-changing. Divided into four parts, ‘Flow’ is both a theoretical framework and a practical approach to understanding and embracing life’s challenges, from dealing with past traumas to finding one’s true purpose and identity.