Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death on the West Cliff
by Jan Durham
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Murder stalks the art world in this seaside town.
The long summer days bring visitors flocking to the little fishing town of Whitby… and the short summer nights bring murder. When the night watchman at the West Cliff Art Gallery is found dead, everyone in the town is baffled.
All the gallery alarms were disabled, and the thieves had free run of the place. So why didn’t they steal anything? Widow Liz McLuckie is determined to find out.
Dead Man’s Folly
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt.
Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that’s something sinister is about to happen….
Justice for Hattie Mayfair
by Irene Onorato
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lexi Mallard saw what happened in the woods. But if she tells…
Ten years is a long time to keep a secret. Eat, sleep, work. Stay busy. A social life seems impossible until Corbin Taylor, Lexi’s policeman next-door-neighbor, reaches out in friendship that quickly becomes much more serious. Lexi’s budding relationship with a cop doesn’t go unnoticed by her evil brother.
She quickly learns that putting the past behind is not always an option. Sometimes it will chase, overtake, and try to kill you.
Baghdad Heist
by J.J. Carson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Amidst the chaos of war-torn Baghdad, a relentless FBI agent must unravel the web of deception that threatens to consume her team and her very existence…
Female FBI agent Charlie Glass is assigned to recover treasures stolen from the Baghdad Museum during the Iraq War. The suspense explodes when she uncovers an international crime syndicate within her own team. Mysterious murders and bitter betrayals plunge Charlie into a deadly fight for survival.
Who Knows You Best
by M. Ocampo McIvor
Rating: 3.6 #ad
Eight-year-old Kayla is hit with a baseball and her eyes change color. But something else changes as well—she begins to see apparitions and dreams of events before they happen. That summer, Terry moves next door to Kayla, a boy who dreams of voyaging to outer space. They become fast friends, and along with Camille and Bianca, they bike around their Chicago neighborhood sharing adventures like typical children. Only, they are not typical.
After Bianca’s humiliating turn during a game of Spin the Bottle in middle school, the four friends start to pull away from each other. Years of petty jabs and a series of misunderstandings slowly fracture their friendship until it seems impossible to mend.
Execution Day
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When justice is on the line, the courtroom becomes a battleground for a prosecutor obsessed with victory, a defense attorney hired to thwart it and a wily defendant making a bid for freedom.
Steven Ross, a family man from a small midwestern town, has been arrested for murder. Evidence suggests he’s an accomplice of the sadistic killer Paul Offenbach. County district attorney Evan Quill believes in his heart that Ross is guilty, but as the trial unfolds, doubts emerge. He presses forward anyway, in a legal fencing match against a brilliant big-city defense attorney. Will Quill’s uncompromising beliefs put an innocent man in jail? Or will a misstep let a killer go free?
System Reborn Vol 2
by Kaz Hunter
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Sloan continues to defy expectations. He’s leveling quicker than almost anyone in recorded history, but he has problems two.
For one, the police are on to him and want questions. This didn’t make a lot of sense to me, because he’s not the one responsible for what happens in most of the rifts. Still, it does add a twist.
For two, he has a big bad guy following him for reasons I won’t explain. When they do meet it should be good.” by Amazon Customer
Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula
by Christian Klaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Sherlock Holmes is dead. His body lies in a solitary grave on the Sussex Downs, England. But Dr. Watson survives, and is now given permission to release tales in Sherlock’s ‘classified dossier’, those cases that are, dear reader, unbelievable – for their subject matter is of the most outré and grotesque nature.
In this thrilling first instalment of The Classified Dossier, a Transylvanian nobleman called Count Dracula arrives at Baker Street seeking the help of Sherlock Holmes, for his beloved wife Mina has been kidnapped.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Plum Spooky
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey.
According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens and soars above the treetops in the dark of night. As eerie as this might seem, there are things in the Barrens that are even more frightening and dangerous. And there are monkeys. Lots of monkeys.
Wulf Grimoire is a world wanderer and an opportunist who can kill without remorse and disappear like smoke. He’s chosen Martin Munch, boy genius, as his new business partner, and he’s chosen the Barrens as his new playground.
Grace for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Pastor Paisley Yukon fought many hard battles to win acceptance and lead Ideal’s Grace Cowboy Church as a woman, but when a possible cult moves into town—her conflicts multiply along with unsolved murders.
A widow, who lost her husband and daughter in the same horrific traffic accident, Paisley could easily fall in love with Ideal’s Sheriff Kip Restwinder. However, when she befriends and hides a missing teen, the sheriff becomes inimical toward her, a fact that is only complicated by two murders and attempts on her own life…
Covert Dreams
by Michael Meyer
Rating: 3.3 #ad
What if the government said that your missing wife never existed? Intrigue and conspiracy from Munich to the burning sands of Saudi Arabia.
“As he sat there, he became one gigantic spasm. His body jerked involuntarily, without interruption, and he began to spin. The world was upside down, sideways—because what couldn’t possibly be, inexplicably was. Blobs of perspiration fell onto the book. B.J. slammed it shut. He pushed the terrible pages aside. He was in such a state that the librarian looked up at him from across the room, frowning disapproval his way as sharp as Arabian swords.
But B.J. didn’t notice. He couldn’t see. He was lost completely to the horror of his mind.”
What is real, and what is not? Who is really who, and why?
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
by Dorothy Gilman
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The cheerful Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, is once again plunged headfirst into a hair-raising CIA mission.
Posing as a tourist in China, Mrs. Pollifax meets the sinister challenges of the Orient to safeguard a treasure for the CIA . . . and all but loses her life in the bargain.
The Last Best Hope
by Ed McBain
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Leggy Jill Lawton sits in Matthew Hope’s law office, hoping he can help her acquire a divorce. There are just two problems: first, Hope is a criminal attorney, and second, Mr. Lawton has vanished. Jill wants Hope and his crew to track down her husband’s whereabouts so she can get on with her new life. But when a body washes up with a bullet hole for a face and Jack Lawton’s driver’s license in its pocket, it appears the case is closed…except the victim is not Jill Lawton’s missing husband.
Now Hope must team up with the 87th Precinct’s Detective Steve Carella to ID the dead man and hunt down a deadbeat. What the two discover is an underworld of theft, lies, murder, and kink—where all the players have something, or someone, to hide.
Search and Destroy
by Paul Heatley
Rating: 4.6 #ad
If you come to kill Tom Rollins, you better not miss.
Honduran cartel leader, Oscar Zavala, has escaped from the Mexican prison where he’s been serving a life sentence. And now he wants to take revenge on the men who put him there – Tom Rollins and his former black ops unit.
Oscar sends a team to the US. Their mission – to take Rollins alive and bring him back to Honduras where he can be tortured and killed.
Deadly Eyes
by Michael Meyer
Rating: 3.0 #ad
Cuff and Rosie are lovers on the small Caribbean island of St. Croix, where rum and Bob Marley reggae and calypso rule. The sky is as blue as Cuff’s eyes, the turquoise ocean as pretty as Rosie’s cheeks, where the gentle lapping of the waves is a lullaby, and the swaying of the palm trees is a dance. The sandy beaches are as white as sugar. It truly is paradise. Their life there is idyllic, except for one thing—the unknown killer stalking them.
Bones in the Wilderness
by George Bellairs
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The case of a missing antiques dealer brings Scotland Yard to France . . .
When Samuel Cheever, a shady dealer, goes to France to buy antiques and never returns, people begin to ask questions, and Superintendent Littlejohn is sent to uncover the mystery. Then, when Cheever’s bones are discovered in the wilderness of the Camargue, Littlejohn finds himself having to navigate the company of the French police.
While working the case, Littlejohn and his partner, Sergeant Cromwell, throw themselves into la vie française with gusto: the sunshine, the food and, of course, the wine…
Voice in the Storm
by Eric Thomas Ruthford
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Helene is ready for a perfect summer with her friends at church camp when a nearby forest fire threatens to force an evacuation. Camp is her only time to see her friends from before her family’s move in the middle of seventh grade, friends she knew before the bullies and the cliques of her new school made her go from shy to terrified. Helene puts her science skills to work to think of a way to escape the smoke. With the help of a meteorologist who has come to study the fire, she creates a plan, but first she must find her voice to convince the camp director that it could work.
Ned Bear and The Dirty Whiske
by A. B. Roveen
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In a world where magic is gone…
Ned is a grizzly bear trained for fighting wars. But he doesn’t want to fight anymore. He’d much rather live a life of exploration and leisure. So one day he ventures out beyond his village to the city of Wexlin.
The world is a wondrous place and he soon happens upon a group of pirates searching for a great treasure lost at sea. Maybe Ned can find fulfillment in joining them on their quest. It certainly sounds fun. The only problem is Ned is afraid of the ocean.