Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Ultraviolet
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland’s ex-wife #2: Violet “Ultraviolet” Purcell.
Everywhere Jane and her lovable misfit pug, Binky, look, there’s a suspect odder than the last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex-wife strung out on Botox, and a current wife who’s a cross between Donna Reed and a sex kitten – all of them eager to blame Roland’s death on Violet.
Chooser of the Slain Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What would happen if Odin decided to get involved in Midgard again?
Our world is tearing itself apart. The evil among us are ripping apart the very seams of today’s society, using terrorism and blackmail to create chaos.
Valerie Kearie, mead lover and history major, joins the mercenary company Viking, Inc. as a prospective business analyst. She soon discovers that something is going on with her that she’s not sure of.
Haunted by the Devil
by Bill Hiatt
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Chris is nothing if not stubborn. The woman he loves is trapped in Hell, and he’s determined to free her even though everyone who finds out about his quest thinks he has no hope of success. They could be right. He doesn’t have any idea how to rescue someone from Hell. Even worse, his lack of faith robs him of the best methods to combat demons. Can love really conquer all? To find out, Chris will have to risk his life–and maybe his own soul.
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6 Killer Bodies
by Stephanie Bond
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A killer remains at large…
Carlotta Wren’s world is crumbling beneath her well-shod feet. One of her closest friends has been arrested as the Charmed Killer, but Carlotta refuses to believe it. And to prove her friend’s innocence, Carlotta goes against her boyfriend Peter’s wishes and resumes her after-hours body-moving duties.
And then… Peter pressures her for an answer to his proposal… Her troubled brother Wesley goes missing…
Defiance of the Fall 2
by TheFirstDefier, JF Brink
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Earth is crumbling from the pressures of not only the invaders, but from nature itself…
Zac has managed to secure his island for the time being, growing into a true powerhouse through his endless struggles. However, becoming the strongest man in the world does not come without complications.
A target has been placed on his back. Natives, aliens – everyone has their eye on the throne. Even the System itself seems intent on forcing him into one desperate situation after another.
Missy’s Murder
by Karen Kingsbury
Rating: 4.8 #ad
From a New York Times–bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter, two teens kill their friend, then befriend the girl’s family to avoid suspicion.
On a beautiful October day in the San Fernando Valley, teenager Missy Avila was lured into the woods, beaten, tortured, and drowned. Missy’s best friend, Karen Severson, publicly vowed to find the killer and even moved in with Missy’s family to help. Three years later, a surprise witness exposed the murderers as Missy’s two best friends—one of whom was Karen.
The Chill
by Scott Carson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A supernatural force—set in motion a century ago—threatens to devastate New York City in this spine-tingling national bestseller that “grips from the first page” (Stephen King, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
Far upstate, in New York’s ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that’s what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America’s founding, were forced from their land, but some didn’t leave…
Dopesick
by Beth Macy
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Journalist Beth Macy’s definitive account of America’s opioid epidemic “masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference” (New York Times) — from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor’s offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Halloween Homicide
by Tonya Kappes
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s spooky season in Holiday Junction and Halloweenie Festival is a hauntingly great time. Treats aren’t just sweet and delicious, sometimes they’re also deadly.
Holiday Junction really knows how to throw holiday festivals, and it goes all out for Halloween.
The holiday celebration includes a ghost walk of haunting tales, a hay ride, carnival games, pumpkin carvings and costume party…
Full Wolf Moon
by Lincoln Child
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Logan travels to an isolated writers’ retreat deep in the Adirondacks to work on his book, he discovers the remote community has been rocked by the grisly death of a hiker on Desolation Mountain. The attack occurred during the full moon and the body was severely mauled, but the unusual savagery calls into question the initial suspicions of a bear attack. Logan’s theories take a dramatic turn when he meets Laura Feverbridge, a respected scientist who is still struggling with the violent loss of her father months earlier. As Feverbridge shares her research with Logan, he begins to wonder whether he is actually up against something he can’t believe is real.
The Flight of the Schimmerplotz
by Charles A. Salter
Rating: 4.5 #ad
2021 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Winner in Christian Fantasy/Sci-Fi!
When a shimmering, threatening window suddenly opens in the park and sucks in his young daughter Sara and partner Brex Herndon, what’s a secret agent to do? Brex, alias Dr. Brains, is the smartest human in the world, while Agent Jack Rigalto, alias Mr. Brawn, is his bodyguard. Both work for the recently opened United States Space Force in its top secret Cosmic Intelligence Group.
Soon they uncover the most ghastly plot ever to conquer the world, one which has been in the works for thousands of years, since the Tower of Babel. The shimmering Schimmerplotz window carries them back and forth in time where they must unravel the conspiracy, unmask the diabolical creatures behind it, and save civilization, battling primitive savages, humanoid giants, and monstrous creatures along the way. Can Brains and Brawn succeed?
Las Cruces
by Bart Hopkins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Nestled in the sun-seared heart of New Mexico, Las Cruces is a desert city that bustles with charm, a jewel in the harsh desert. But underneath the placid surface are dark undercurrents, secrets that were never meant to be uncovered.
Kane Montgomery is an ex-Army Ranger following the highway west with his trusty guitar, Honey, when coincidence, or perhaps something more sinister, compels him to stop in Las Cruces.
He finds himself in the middle of a decades-old mystery, one involving love, deceit … and murder.
Wicked Game
by Suzanne Jenkins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A vice detective and a sex worker meet on the mean streets. Is it fate or a mistake when the attraction is immediate?
Former Detroit homicide detective, Chris Hemmingway, is working vice. He’s also obsessed with renovating an old house in Corktown. The obsession soon has competition when he meets Laura Jerzewski, a nurse who moonlights, trying to maintain visitation of her six-year-old son. Will Chris try to remake her like he’s remaking his old house?
The moment their eyes meet, he’s smitten with Laura. All he wants is to protect her. There is one stumbling block they must overcome, however, and his name is Randall White.
The Polish Nurse
by Leah Moyes
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She has a secret. Keeping it will mean the difference between life and death. 1941, Poland. Though war rages around her and occupying German forces march steadily onward, 16-year-old Aleksandra has lived her life sheltered from danger.
Until one day, she goes to school – never to return.
Pushed roughly into a truck with other schoolgirls like her, a single ominous word tells her all she needs to know about her fate: Lebensborn.
Lebensborn, the infamous German “voluntary reproduction” program – rumored to involve the abduction of blond-haired, blue-eyed girls and forcing them to bear the children of Nazi soldiers.
Holidays Are Hell
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.3 #ad
There’s no place like home for the horrordays – unless you’d prefer a romantic midnight walk through a ghost-infested graveyard . . . or a haunted house candlelight dinner with the sexy vampire of your dreams. The (black) magical season is here – and whether it’s a solstice séance gone demonically wrong with the incomparable Kim Harrison, a grossly misshapen Christmas with the remarkable Lynsay Sands, a blood-chilling-and-spilling New Year’s with the wonderful Marjorie M. Liu, or a super-powered Thanksgiving with the phenomenal Vicki Pettersson, one thing is
