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
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tourists Are for Trapping
by Marian Babson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A group of tourists has arrived in London – shaken by the mysterious death of one of their fellow travelers back in Zurich. Larkin’s Luxury Tours is represented by the public relations firm of Perkins & Tate – so it’s up to Douglas Perkins, with a little assistance from his cat, Pandora, to soothe their fears, boost their spirits . . . and prevent them from demanding refunds.
But after another member of the tour disappears, Doug will have to turn from sightseeing to crime-solving in this puzzler from a “consistently witty” writer (Mystery News).
End of Watch
by Col Bill Best
Rating: 4.8 #ad
With this unusually delivered message, can Karen Richardson neutralize the threat Jason Matthews poses to her and all of humanity?
For decades, Karen hid from Jason. He will spend any amount of money and sacrifice any number of lives to capture her and reverse-engineer her Five Score and Ten genetic reboot. FSAT would make him unstoppable in his quest for world domination.
Roger Brandon, like her, is now genetically enhanced. And like him, she has become trans-dimensional. They are invisible to the rest of the world. They walk through walls. While they prevented World War 3 and a world-wide overthrow by Jason and the evil One World Peace Now organization, their End Times Team is in mortal danger. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.
The CEO: A Gripping Crime Thriller
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Douglas Aspine was a cold, calculating despot who lusted for the riches and power that came with being a public company CEO.
An irresistible crime thriller.
The company was old, staid and well-respected, but it was underperforming, and Aspine was determined to turn it around no matter who he had to crush or how many toes he had to stand on.
Soon he was at war with the company’s employees, unions, suppliers, financiers, and co-directors, but nothing was going to stop him. Not his chairman, not his wife, not his mistress, not the anonymous death threats, and definitely not the media.
Q Is For Quarry
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
She was a “Jane Doe,” an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California’s Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff’s Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the murder remained unsolved…
That was eighteen years ago. Now the two men who found the body are nearing the end of their careers in law enforcement—and they want one last shot at the case. Old and ill, they need someone to help with their legwork and they turn to Kinsey Millhone.
A Place of Darkness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Place of Darkness (A Psychological Thriller)
Vigo Pointer has survived an unhappy childhood with an absentee father and alcoholic mother, then his own marriage has gone to pieces. Now all he wants is to be left alone. It’s taken years of therapy to heal the emotional scars, control his alcoholism, reconcile his feelings of failure, and begin to live a productive life…
and Other Stories
“Just finished John Ottini’s, A Place of Darkness, and found it intriguing! I love how he give the characters such quirky personalities and keeps you wanting for more! Great to read short stories that are interesting and entertaining! A good read!!!!” by Amazon Customer
Alien Agendas
by Ian Douglas
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Reptilian aliens, Nazis in space, time-traveling humans, kidnapped girlfriends, government psychics – it all comes down to this: New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas delivers the jaw-dropping finale to his action-packed military sci-fi Solar Warden adventure series.
The Saurians, a highly evolved reptilian species which escaped extinction 65 million years ago, have an agenda: to achieve behind-the-scenes dominance over Earth. Operating from hidden bases, they use psychosocial techniques to plant conspiracy theories and instill fear within the human population. Too weak in numbers to militarily conquer a world they believe to be their own, they seek to renew Nazi strongman ideologies and surrogates to gain absolute control.
The Exchange: After The Firm
by John Grisham
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Brand New Release
What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide.
Deep Craving: A Collection of Poems
by Joe Giampaolo
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“The author skillfully and eloquently captures emotions that many have experienced and will be able to relate to. The joys and sorrows, challenges, and triumphs of life are highlighted throughout these poems.” Readers’ Favorite
Deep Craving is Joe Giampaolo’s first book of poetry and is a compilation of 40 poems that are inspiring and romantic and with a dream-like atmosphere. With each poem, the author celebrates passion or tackles topics of social justice, personal grief and aspects of speculative metaphysics that give us a new way of looking at the universe and our place in it. With Deep Craving, Joe takes the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions with his raw and vibrant style of poetry and makes no apologies for his dives into the darkest and most remote spheres of the human psyche in search of love, beauty, truth, redemption, compassion and acceptance
