Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Quinn Reaper
by Jesi Kellis
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Armed with caustic wit and Resting Doll Face, 24-year-old Quinn grapples through life, selling used underwear online to keep a dilapidated roof over her head. She escaped her past once before, but when an intruder arrives to escort her spirit to the hereafter, running isn’t an option.
Scheduled for a fatal brain aneurysm in eleven minutes, she strikes a desperate deal with Milo, her assigned reaper. If he’ll postpone her death by taking an impromptu vacation among the living, Quinn will be his travel guide. And she’ll replace his retired partner when her extension ends.
Five Days Lost
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Mylas Grey agrees to investigate a personal matter for Senator Davis Allen. The investigation needs to be quick, thorough, and discreet.
It needs to be quick . . . Because the senator is working against a deadline. But how can it be quick when it involves a long-forgotten incident?
It needs to be thorough . . . Because the senator needs answers for his upcoming press conference. But how can it be thorough when a dead woman’s diary is all Mylas has to work with?
It needs to be discreet . . . Because the senator is desperate to protect his reputation. But how can it be discreet when Mylas discovers he’s being followed?
Can his faith sustain him when he faces uncertainty? Will the feelings Mylas and Whitney have for each other overcome their doubts?
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(Mylas Grey Mysteries)
The Demon from the Crypt
by Karla Brandenburg
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Mere weeks after tying up the haunting at Horned Owl Hollow, Elspeth Barclay receives a panicked call from her sister Laine, who is vacationing in Spain. Laine has seen a ghost whose appearance portends death. Hoping to avoid flying over an ocean, Elle downplays the danger, but when she hears the ghost shriek over the phone, rescuing her sister trumps her paralyzing fear of air travel. Elle invites the man she’s been dating to accompany her, as much for moral support as for psychic support.
In Sevilla, Laine’s boyfriend Gavin arranges a tour of the haunted crypt—the source of the ghostly screams—but this apparition is no ordinary ghost. According to local ghost hunters, it’s a demon desperate to escape the hallowed ground where it is entombed—a demon rumored to have killed a man in a recent possession and attempt at exorcism. Now, the demon has hijacked Gavin.
Bones and Silence
by Reginald Hill
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot – but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatty letters from an anonymous sender who says her resolution for the new year is to commit suicide.
In the midst of all this, Dalziel is participating in a locally produced medieval mystery play – and has been cast in the role of God. Playing opposite him, as Lucifer, is the very man he suspects of murder . . .
Nighthawk’s Wing
by Charles Fergus
Rating: 4.2 #ad
For Fans of Madeline Miller and Geraldine Brooks, and Historical Mysteries Involving Witchcraft, Second Sight, and Amish, Mennonite, and Pennsylvania Dutch Communities.
In this thrilling second in the Gideon Stoltz Mystery series that Booklist called “An appealing debut that deserves a boost from enthusiastic hand-sellers,” it’s now 1836 in the fast-growing town of Adamant. The young Pennsylvania Dutch sheriff Gideon has a new case when a beautiful woman—suspected of witchcraft and residing in a nearby German settlement—is murdered. Suffering from a head injury after a fall off his horse, Gideon can’t recall anything that happened at the time of the woman’s death. As flashes of memory return, he realizes that not only did he know the victim, he was with her the night she died. As Gideon delves into the investigation, he must include himself in the list of suspects.
Sanctuary Lost
by Lisa Phillips
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to Sanctuary.
After a dangerous undercover mission goes wrong, US Marshal John Mason gains full custody of his son and is transferred to a witness protection town that isn’t on any map. When the town’s first ever murder occurs, John’s plans to reconnect with his boy are put on hold while he proves himself as sheriff.
But is the suspect guilty – or being framed?
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(Mylas Grey Mysteries)
The Memory Box
by Kathryn Hughes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the million-copy-bestselling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes, and inspired by true events, an unforgettable, moving and timeless story of love and war which will stay with you for ever. Readers who adored The Nightingale, The Notebook or The Rainbow will love to unlock The Memory Box…
Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piece of her heart. However painful, she must return to Cinque Alberi. And lay the past to rest.
The Running Grave
by Robert Galbraith
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release at Regular Price
The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.
In order to try to rescue Will, Strike’s business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her. . .
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
A Hex for Danger
by Esme Addison
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The small town of Bellamy Bay has its share of skeletons in its closet, but it isn’t used to bodies turning up in the local history museum. After all, this coastal North Carolina town is much like any other…except, of course, for the mermaids.
Helping to run the family business, an herbal apothecary while keeping her supernatural secret hidden is no easy feat for water witch Aleksandra Daniels. But somehow she’s still found time to help her friend Celeste, who has her own Caribbean mermaid heritage plan the annual Mermaid Festival. As fun-seekers throng the beaches, Alex gets to know and is intrigued by renowned artist Neve Ryland, who’s in town to decorate the local park with a mermaid-themed mural.
Transient Desires
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times Bestseller: Two injured, unconscious American women are found in Venice, Italy, leading a police detective down a dark path: “A splendid read.” —BookPage
In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. In this novel in Silver Dagger Award-winning series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joyriding in the Laguna with two young Italians. But Brunetti’s curiosity is aroused by the men’s behavior. Why did they run off after bringing the victims to the hospital if the injuries were accidental?
Ramses the Damned
by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war.
A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt’s greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he’s found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his tomb. Now, with the outbreak of a world war looming, Ramses and those immortals brought forth from the mists of history by his resurrection will face their greatest test yet.
Mary: An Awakening of Terror
by Nat Cassidy
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.
Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself.
But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things.
Who Okayed This?
by Philip E. Barrington
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“THE DIARY OF A MAN AT DEATHS DOOR!”
In the #1 Best-selling novel “Who Okayed This?! The Riveting Life of Grant Davis” it follows the life of the fascinating Grant Davis, a man of the world with a deep appreciation for nature, family, and friends – a touchingly honest character, of the type rarely seen in today’s fast-paced world of rapidly-devoured media.
In the tale that won the prestigious 2022 Stellar Book Award, true events are mingled with fiction in a well-blended cosmopolitan cocktail of danger and delight. A cast of characters is drawn, from dark and dangerous to quirky and memorable. Each new face that enters the story may be a passing fancy to title hero Grant, or may hold treacherous secrets that threaten to destroy him. Old friends, new acquaintances, and violent enemies combine in a uniquely readable thriller! Grant’s adventures begin as a young man going to a prestigious boarding school, where he makes lifelong friends, but also lifelong enemies. Standing up for what’s right will, unfortunately, come back to haunt him.
A Testament to Murder
by Vivian Conroy
Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this historical mystery, a retired detective heads to the French Riviera where a dying billionaire plays a twisted game with nine would-be heirs.
At the lush Villa Calypso on the French Riviera, a dying billionaire launches a devious plan: at midnight each day he appoints a new heir to his vast fortune. If he dies within twenty-four hours, that person takes it all. If not, their chance is gone forever.
Yet these are no ordinary beneficiaries, these men who crossed him, women who deceived him, and distant relations intent on reclaiming the family fortune. All are determined to lend death a hand and outwit their rivals in pursuit of the prize.
The Bone Track
by Sara E. Johnson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A nature trek turns dangerous when the wilderness gives up its bones…
New Zealand’s remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn’t spent much time since they were kids. Their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start, though, when she must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons – most likely M?ori tribespeople – whose graves have been unearthed by highway construction. Before she opens the first casket, a M?ori elder gives her a dire warning: “The viewing of bones can unleash misfortune to the living. Or worse.”
Kiss the Moon
by Carla Neggers
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lost in the frozen woods of New Hampshire, Penelope Chestnut discovers the wreckage of a small plane. An aviator herself, she sees clues to a conspiracy in the rusted-out remains.
Rumors of her discovery bring Wyatt Sinclair to Cold Spring, determined to put to rest a family scandal and learn what really happened to his legendary uncle, who had disappeared with his adventuress lover years earlier.