Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Crafting for Murder
by Barbara Emodi
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beware! A crafty killer lurks in Gasper’s Cove. First in a cozy mystery series set in a fictional Nova Scotia town where crafting and community collide.
Seamstress, crafter, and empty-nester Valerie Rankin has plans to open a crafter’s co-op that will put Gasper’s Cove, Nova Scotia on the map. One month before opening day, she still has to pin down a venue, patch up the family business, iron out corruption in the town council, and unravel why anyone who tries to help her ends up dead. With the help of her Golden Retriever, an ex-con who loves cats, and a community of first, second, and third cousins, she just might pull it off.
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The paperweight—a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . and a mystery. How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind?
Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. The paperweight, a gift from her father, spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers, and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
The Patient
by Cole Baxter
Rating: 4.1 #ad
James thought he’d be safe in this old house. He was wrong.
Ten years ago, James Owens was convicted of a murder he couldn’t remember committing. Now, finally released from the mental institution where he’s served his time, he is placed under house arrest in the sprawling family home he has inherited from his father.
Living in isolation, visited only by his therapist, parole officer, and supportive but controlling twin Janet, he at least has something resembling peace. But he is still haunted by hallucinations, nightmares, and bizarre memories which may or may not be real.
Pretend You Don’t See Her
by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Mary Higgins Clark sends chills down readers’ spines with the story of Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene. One day, while showing a luxurious skyline co-op, Lacey is witness to a murder—and to the dying words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced that the attacker was after her dead daughter’s journal—which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It’s an impulse that later proves nearly fatal.
Placed in the witness protection program and sent to live in the Minneapolis area, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date—until the strain of deception makes her break it off.
Ghostwritten
by Ronald Malfi
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe!
In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride.
In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book. A choose-your-own adventure game spirals into an uncanny reality in The Story.
Full of creepy, page-turning suspense, these collected novellas are perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen King and Joe Hill.
Supernatural Criminal Investigations Complete Set
by Lyn South, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
She’s hidden her identity for years, all to keep her and her family safe, but running from supernatural beings comes at a cost.
After her daughter dies, Kat is pulled back into a world she desperately tried to escape to get answers and expose the truth.
Grab this 6-book complete series boxed set today to join the team as they discover the dark reality behind myths of the supernatural!
Sacred
by Dennis Lehane
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money…
Enter tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they’ve seen it all – and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory: a place of lies and corruption, where trusting anyone could get them killed, and where nothing is sacred.
Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils
by James Lovegrove
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It is the autumn of 1910, and for fifteen long years Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have battled R’lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R’lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.
The companions retreat to Holmes’s farm on the Sussex Downs, and it is not long before a client comes calling. Three young women have disappeared from the nearby town of Newford, and the locals have no doubt who is responsible.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Takedown Twenty
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Stephanie Plum has her sights set on catching a notorious mob boss. If she doesn’t take him down, he may take her out.
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in—not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because—just Stephanie’s luck—the godfather is his actual godfather. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail.
Colton Day
by William Black
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Colton Day, a rugged cowboy tired of bloodshed, yearns for a simple life in the wilderness.
Leaving behind his love, Caroline, and the town he once protected as sheriff, Temple Ridge, he thinks he can escape the shadows that haunted him. Little did he know that his past would come roaring back with a vengeance.
Buck Mantooth, a cold-blooded outlaw, and his malevolent father, Virgil, engineer a prison break, unleashing a horde of ruthless criminals upon Temple Ridge. Plundering and killing are not enough for them – they crave the death of Colton Day, a thorn in their side.
But what they fail to realize is that Colton is no ordinary prey.
Where the Truth Lives
by Mia Sheridan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The follow-up to Where the Blame Lies—Where the Truth Lives is a gripping, page-turning, romantic thriller that will leave you gasping for breath.
When the director of a local mental health hospital is found murdered and mutilated, Homicide Detective Reed Davies is first on scene. What was done to the body is gruesome. Inexplicable. But Reed is dealt another curveball when he finds that the doctor who discovered the victim is someone Reed is intimately familiar with—a woman with whom he shared one passionate night weeks before.
The Fourth Bible
by J. Robert Kennedy
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the 7th century, three Bibles were painstakingly created by Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey monks. Over the years, one was destroyed, one remains today in tatters, and the third, still intact, became known as the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible.
Until today. A fourth Bible, unknown to history, has been discovered.
Invited to inspect the priceless find, Archaeology Professors James Acton and Laura Palmer head for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and while there, eco-terrorists overrun the location. Under threat by the terrorist leader, the professors are forced to steal the ancient bible to save the hostages.
Maggie’s Revenge
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This is the long-awaited sequel to my popular Wounded Hearts series. Many readers have asked about the missing DEA Agent, Maggie Holt, who was captured by sex traffickers.
This is her story:
She wasn’t his responsibility. Frank barely knew DEA Agent Holt well enough to call her Maggie. But he wanted to, and that was a problem. Because his buddy, retired Navy SEAL and now her partner, Adam O’Connor, had the jones for her too. And if that wasn’t bad enough, she’d gone rogue, deep undercover, and gotten herself into a mess she might not survive. He was better off forgetting about ink-black hair and cinnamon sugar eyes and concentrate on what needed to be done here.
The Summer of the Danes
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The twelfth-century Welsh monk is caught up in civil war and captured by Danish mercenaries, in the Silver Dagger Award–winning medieval mystery series.
In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen and the Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne, have temporarily exhausted each other. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers peace a blessing. Still, a little excitement never comes amiss to a former soldier, and Cadfael is delighted to accompany a friend on a mission of diplomacy to his native Wales.
Wash Away
by J.S. Bowers
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Grad-student chemist Zenna Cherny is in thrall to a stubborn adolescent mermaid, genetically engineered by Zenna’s mad-scientist grandmother. The execs at Fospey Industries would like to buy that mermaid, but they’d prefer to take her by force.
Zenna’s cousin Alex is helping a band of emancipated customer-service robots build weapons out in the barn. And the town is currently overrun by obsessed fans who want to discover the siren voice on that viral video.
The Street Between the Pines
by J.J. Alo
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Curtis Reynolds hasn’t slept well in months. Years, even, if you include the deadly DUI that ruined his life.
Returning home today to a pile of debt, his estranged wife, and son between third-shift work assignments has been anything but bliss.
This morning, his elderly neighbor was brutally murdered, and the local police are now prodding him for answers.
And later today, the haunting visions will return with a vengeance…