Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Salvation Project
by Joe Rothstein
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Finalist for Political Thriller of The Year!–Pacific Reviews
U.S. President Isabel Aragon Tennyson (“Tenny,” as the world knows her) is running for reelection, unaware that her opponent is a Manchurian-like candidate created by a shadowy group that calls itself the Salvation Project, bent on taking control of the United States. The election will determine not just who will be president, but likely the future of humanity.
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“If you loved The Martian, you’ll go crazy for Weir’s latest.” – The Washington Post
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
A Conjuring of Ravens
by Azalea Ellis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan is a genius. But even geniuses need schooling.
When Siobhan stumbled into the theft of a priceless magical book, she thought her dreams of becoming the world’s most powerful sorcerer were destroyed. But then a mysterious spell changed her life forever…
Siobhan is now wearing the body of a strange man and has a new identity – Sebastien. With a new chance for a new start, she allies herself with a local gang – secretly a revolutionary party funding itself through crime. Now, she is bound by vow to repay them in magic and favors.
Dreaming Spies
by Laurie R. King
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Laurie R. King’s novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are critically acclaimed and beloved by readers for the author’s adept interplay of history and adventure. Now the intrepid duo is finally trying to take a little time for themselves—only to be swept up in a baffling case that will lead them from the idyllic panoramas of Japan to the depths of Oxford’s most revered institution.
After a lengthy case that had the couple traipsing all over India, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are on their way to California to deal with some family business that Russell has been neglecting for far too long. Along the way, they plan to break up the long voyage with a sojourn in southern Japan…
The Missing Piece
by John Lescroart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The beloved New York Times bestselling Dismas Hardy series returns with a “perfect piece of entertainment from a master storyteller” (Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author) about a relentlessly twisty murder mystery.
No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison eleven years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is particularly happy to see him again when he’s released after The Exoneration Initiative uncovered evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered, surrounded by the loot from his latest scam. But if Riley was innocent all along, who wanted him dead?
The Alien Chronicles Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Intelligent life on other planets: it’s the brass ring of space exploration. Do extra-terrestrial species exist? Will we ever make contact? Perhaps, have we made contact already?
In the latest addition to the Future Chronicles series of sci-fi anthologies, the answer to all of these questions is a resounding yes. From first contact to last stand, these original short stories range from quiet tales of personal connection to adrenaline-infused inter-species space conflicts. Each tale promises to present you with a different look at what intelligent alien life might be like — and how we Earthlings might respond to it.
The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
by Lynn Byk
Rating: 4.1 #ad
There’s a filigree setting for every family secret. What Elsie covets is the truth. Consequences come with being an heir of the Finch family estate, consequences no one bargained for.
This story is the story of one woman learning to grieve.
Finalist in The SOMERSET Book Awards recognizes emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). This story delivers.
Richard and Gail Finch designed their estate to carry ramifications for misplaced loyalties, but there are results neither one contemplated. When the third generation aims for a cache of treasure, someone is expendable…
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Imitation In Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Summer, 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, “Jack.”
Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers like Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler as she does…
Dead in the Water
by Ann Granger
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In a sleepy Cotswold village, heavy rains reveal the body of a barmaid and troubling mystery for a local police inspector.
As Christmas approaches in the sleepy English village of Weston Saint Ambrose, the rains bring the wettest winter on record and the farmer’s fields are submerged. The water uncovers all manner of things, however, including a dead body, dredged up from its watery grave.
Reclusive writer Neil Stewart is shocked to find the victim snagged on the jetty at his house, and even more surprised when he recognizes her. And he’s not the only one.
Peace Talks
by Jim Butcher
Rating: 4.7 #ad
HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files.
When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, joins the White Council’s security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago—and all he holds dear?
The Yawning Gap
by C.V. Vobh
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Absolutely stellar. Vobh’s prose is a wonder.” –Tellest
Invisible boundaries have isolated Cor’s village for centuries. He discovers a way out.
What he finds outside is a blighted and violent world in decline. Similar boundaries have fragmented the earth, while draining it of life – and he is tasked with fixing it, together with several fellow wanderers.
They soon gain the power to cross those boundaries and venture into the unknown lands beyond them. What will they find waiting there … ?
Chrysalis
by Lincoln Child
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale.
And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company. He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis’s technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating.
Murder in the Place of Anubis
by Lynda S. Robinson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The body of a much-hated scribe has been found in the sacred place of embalming, and the resulting outrage could threaten the reign of Tutankhamun. So the boy king tasks his investigator, Lord Meren, to look into the crime. The quest will take Meren into the worlds of nobles, slaves, and schemers in the royal court—all while he fights to keep the teenaged pharaoh safe from those who would take advantage of this crisis . . .
“It’s always a pleasure to negotiate the treacherous corridors of power with Lord Meren.” – The New York Times Book Review
The Mine
by Antti Tuomainen
Rating: 4.1 #ad
An investigative reporter sets out to uncover the truth about a mining company in Northern Finland, whose activities have caused an environmental disaster. Timely, atmospheric and chilling Nordic Noir from one of Finland’s finest writers…
A hitman. A journalist. A shattered family. A mine spewing toxic secrets that threaten to poison them all…
In the dead of winter, investigative reporter Janne Vuori sets out to uncover the truth about a mining company, whose illegal activities have created an environmental disaster in a small town in Northern Finland.