Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Poisonous Page
by Kitt Crowe
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kitt Crowe’s second Sweet Fiction Bookshop mystery whips up an array of intriguing suspects and motives into a diabolically deft read, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Joanne Fluke.
It’s summer festival time in Confection, Oregon, and that means a barrage of tourists making cash registers ring at Sweet Fiction Bookshop. But what should be bookseller Lexi’s most lucrative time of year turns disturbing when a member of the chamber of commerce suddenly dies of a heart attack. Not entirely unexpected—considering her family history—but it’s a different story when another chamber member dies just one week later…also, presumably, of natural causes.
Free Worlds Complete Series
by Kevin Mclaughlin, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
George Dane was the hero of the last war on Earth. Now he faces his greatest challenge yet as security chief for humanity’s first interstellar colony mission.
After over a century in stasis aboard their ship, the colonists are shocked to find their new home is completely covered by oceans. Upon landing, they discover that they are not alone…
Will the colonists be able to survive on the world they have been sent to? Or does space have different plans for them?
The Sins of our Fathers
by Åsa Larsson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year 2021 (Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy)
Winner of the Storytel Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021
Winner of the Adlibris Award for Best Suspense Novel 2021
Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that has long since passed the statute of limitations. A body found in a freezer at the home of the deceased alcoholic, Henry Pekkari, has been identified as a man who disappeared without a trace in 1962: the father of Swedish Olympic boxing champion Börje Ström. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case – she has enough to worry about. But how can she ignore a dying man’s wish?
Auschwitz
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account.
Below Ground
by Michael Wood
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A MISSING DETECTIVE DCI Matilda Darke has been kidnapped and her nemesis, Steve Harrison appears to be behind it. He’s currently residing in the supermax of Wakefield Prison and spends twenty-three hours a day in his cell, so how could he possibly be responsible?
A SERIAL KILLER WITH A VENGEANCE As Matilda’s team race to find her, they’re alerted to a body found in an abandoned car on the outskirts of Sheffield. With forensics scouring the woodland for clues, the last thing they expect is for the body count to rise.
Son of the Desert
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Missie Pickard is dead. Main street has burned. And the outlaw that pulled the trigger has disappeared into the scorched Arizona desert. The townspeople demand justice.
When young miner Miles McLean returns home to find his town in ruins, he wants justice as much as anybody. Miles must find Willy Helm, the murderous bank robber seen fleeing the scene of the crime…
Willy Helm. He’ll kill for money and he’ll kill for fun. Nobody has come close enough to collect the bounty on his head.
As Miles searches alone in the sweltering desert, he finds himself entangled in bloody Apache wars and savage frontier towns. Allies seem far between. Until he crosses path with Lucie Pickard, Missie’s sister.
Lucie thinks she is bringing Missie home. But instead, she has to bury her. Now she wants revenge.
The Scarpetta Factor
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events, culminating in an ominous package—possibly a bomb—showing up at the front desk of the apartment building where she and her husband, Benton, live. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionaire with whom her niece, Lucy, seems to have shared a secret past.
The Justice of Kings
by Richard Swan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Action, intrigue, and magic collide in this epic fantasy following Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor’s Justice, who is a detective, judge, and executioner all in one—but with rebellion and unrest building, these are dangerous times to be a Justice . . .
The Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics, and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the Imperial throne.
Only the Order of Justices stands in the way of chaos. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is the most feared Justice of all, upholding the law by way of his sharp mind, arcane powers, and skill as a swordsman. At his side stands Helena Sedanka, his talented protégé, orphaned by the wars that forged the Empire.
The Watchmaker’s Hand
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.5 #ad
BRAND NEW RELEASE
When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. The clock is ticking.
Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs have to dodge his brilliant scheme to destroy them both, while racing against time to stop the construction site terrorists.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Skeleton Makes a Friend
by Leigh Perry
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid.
Sid reveals that he and Jen are part of a regular online gaming group that formed locally, and one of their members has gone missing. Sid admits that he might have bragged about his investigative prowess, enough so that Jen wants him to find their missing player.
Miss Silver Deals with Death
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Maud Silver, governess-turned-sleuth, investigates a case of blackmail in a once-grand London apartment house.
Vandeleur House was great once. The home of a prominent court painter, its ballroom and parlors hosted the brightest of the Victorian era. Now divided into eight flats, it is an apartment building whose glorious façade conceals a nest of diabolical intrigue. There is Maude, a young woman who was crossing the Atlantic when her steamer was struck by a Nazi torpedo. She survived; her husband did not. Then there’s Ivy, a sleepwalking maid with a curious past.
Witness in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a famous thespian is killed right before her eyes, New York detective Eve Dallas takes a new place in crime as both officer and witness to murder in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series.
The opening night of the revival of Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the Prosecution” at New York’s New Globe Theater turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death right on center stage. Now Eve Dallas has a high-profile celebrity homicide on her hands…
Lord Valentine’s Castle
by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past.
Then Valentine begins to dream—and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him.
Spearhead
by Adam Makos
Rating: 4.8 #ad
THE NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury.” – The Wall Street Journal
From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s journey into the heart of the Third Reich, where he will meet destiny in an iconic armor duel—and forge an enduring bond with his enemy.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
For My Own Good
by Vanessa Garbin
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Cocooned in her home, and wracked with guilt, a young mother tries to get her life back on track… Mary is on medication but it is making her forgetful.
She has been ever since her nine-month-old baby was injured whilst in her care.Mary can’t remember the details but fortunately the infant is fine now. Her husband is way over-protective, making her stay in the house and take on a nanny.
Mary knows it’s for her own good. She couldn’t bear the thought of anything else happening to her beloved child.
Accidentally Wonderful
by Michelle Zuriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A struggling single father discovers life’s tiny miracles in this wonderous debut novel from up-and-coming author Michelle Zuriel.
A moment’s mistake on the job lands dedicated police officer Avinoam Shaked with four months of community service to be served at his local day center. Still shaken by the accident, Avinoam’s mixed feelings about the center dissipate as he gets to know its caregivers and residents whose lives it has changed:
Young and upbeat Julie, looking for some small refuge from her psychotic episodes and relapses; Orna, the manager of the day center, who struggles to maintain both its day-to-day operations and her crumbling marriage; and Jonathan, Avinoam’s disabled son, whose condition is not the sole cause of their distant, fragile relationship.
Where’s Chuckawalla Bill’s Cabin?
by Kevin Heaton
Rating: 4.3 #ad
How does one become so hopelessly lost, even after considerable planning and preparation? The answer to that question is recovered here in this true tale of despair, & perseverance. From the moment his ill-fated hike begins, you will see what the author sees, & feel what he feels as, step by step, his precarious situation becomes increasingly desperate. Heaton is not likely to make it out of the desert alive, but you will find yourself hoping against hope that he does.