Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cold Cutting Murder
by Emma Ainsley
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Beauty may be skin deep… But murder is downright ugly.
Catering Manager and amateur sleuth, Carolina Hart, has her work cut out for her when she’s hired to cater a beauty pageant. Accustomed to providing buffet style meals, she’s going to have to get creative when the requested menu consists of charcuterie-type fare that includes fresh selections of finger foods.
Her stress level is also kicked up a notch when she discovers that a rival caterer happens to be one of the pageant’s judges. Determined to rise above it all, Carolina vows to do her best work.
The Camp
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.1 #ad
There are always stories told around the fire at summer camp—tall tales about gruesome murders and unhinged killers, concocted to scare new arrivals and lend an extra jolt of excitement to those hormone-charged nights. At Camp Luft-Shawk, nicknamed Camp Love Shack, there are stories about a creeping fog that brings death with it. But here, they’re not just campfire tales. Here, the stories are real.
Twenty years ago, a girl’s body was found on a ledge above the lake, arms crossed over her heart. Some said it was part of a suicide pact, connected to the nearby Haven Commune…
Zombie Fungus
by Bryan Dean
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Abe thought he was ready for this. He’d watched the movies, read the books, and prepared accordingly. But when the monsters arrived, he realized Hollywood didn’t get all the facts right. Some of these zombies are not your father’s zombies — not even close.
Maybe it’s because the source isn’t a virus, but a fungus? Or that it was synthesized in a laboratory? But who would attempt something so dastardly? How many lives will be lost when humans manipulate what they should have left alone?
But the real question, the one the world will desperately seek to answer: Who do you turn to when monsters are eating you alive? Well, unfortunately for you, it’s Abe and he really doesn’t care what your name is…
Witch of the Federation Boxed Set Two
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The Telorans have arrived, and people in the Federation are going to die.
Vishlog is working to understand the Morgana group, and just what he has “volunteered” to be part of.
Hopefully, he won’t die before he learns.
The Witch of the Federation has matured, and she has learned how to be a bit more aggressive. She chooses to use this new strength…to go on a date.
Join her on the second half of her adventures with this 8-book boxed set!
Fear Thy Neighbor
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.2 #ad
At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. She’s drifted from one small Florida town to another since high school, working odd jobs, saving hard, and building a nest egg. Once she finds the right place to settle down, she’ll know. And when she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it.
The small, close-knit island community seems to have everything Alison needs. On a hunch, she contacts the island’s only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. At first, home is everything she hoped it would be.
New Kingdom
by Mark Chadbourn
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An Ancient Egyptian novel from the master of adventure fiction and global number 1 bestselling author, Wilbur Smith.
In the heart of Egypt. Under the watchful eye of the gods. A new power is rising
In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful façades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui’s stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret, and Hui’s own brother Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Hui’s father, condemning Hui and seizing power in the city.
Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew—an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Double-Pointed Murder
by Ann Yost
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Red Jacket, Michigan, On the Keweenaw Peninsula
When Cricket Koski, a barmaid from the Black Fly, is stabbed to death with a double-pointed knitting needle on New Year’s Eve and deposited in the bed of Lars Teljo, it’s up to Hatti Lehtinen to exonerate her ex-brother-in-law. It’s not that Hatti, who runs a fishing-slash-knitting supply shop, is a trained detective. It’s just that Sheriff Clump considers his collar a slam dunk because an affair between Lars and Cricket three years earlier has made him vulnerable to blackmail.
But there’s a problem…
On the Line
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he’s about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant’s kitchen—and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room.
If it weren’t for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and Mateo and his family undergo a battery of genetic tests. Yet the answers that start to emerge only raise more questions.
My Father’s Secret …
by Dr. Samson Stern, Doron Rosenblatt
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“My father is the kindest, gentlest soul I know. Nothing prepared me for the secret he kept for nearly 40 years.”
Poland. There is a six-month gap in Adam Stern’s life. Six months during which he had to vanish from Warsaw, away from his wife and everything he knew, to protect them. To protect himself. To survive.
Displaced and alone, Adam kept silent about what transpired over those six months, deep in the forests between Poland and Russia. But a chance meeting with another Holocaust survivor changes everything.
Decades later, Adam finally reveals his full story to his son, Samson.
A tale of a miraculous escape across Poland, of unspeakable acts of survival, and a secret group of survivors, bent on revenge, who leave a blood-red trail across Europe.
Azabu Getaway
by Michael Pronko
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Money isn’t the only thing. It’s the deadly thing.
After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo’s wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo’s elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager.
The abducted girls are the daughters of an international couple who seemed to have it all—a large apartment in the high-end Azabu district, top schools for the children, and a life of happy affluence. Their life falls apart and they are swept up in threats and pursuits for reasons they cannot fathom.
Way of the Wolf, The Grand Game
by Tom Elliot
Rating: 4.7 #ad
New Powers and Old. A conflict millennia in the brewing. And at the center of it: one man.
Michael has escaped the clutches of the Dark, if only temporarily. Surfacing in the world above, he finds matters no less complex than down below and survival as challenging as it had been in the dungeon.
Is the harder path the one you must forge on your own? Many want Michael as their ally. Yet more want him dead, and the Dark is not done with him either. Can he find a way to navigate the treacherous waters of the Game and uncover the mysteries about himself?
Finally
by Shirley Ruedy
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Award-Winning Essential Book about Dealing with Cancer
The emotions surrounding cancer are universal—we all want to continue living. But with a cancer diagnosis, a new entity has entered many lives, and whether patient, caregiver, friend, relative, or adult or minor child, we can all use some guidance when it comes to a disease that strikes fear in us. That’s what this book is all about.
How do you deal with those feelings of shock and powerlessness when diagnosed with a life-threatening disease?
How do you live with the fear of recurrence? How do you finally—but necessarily—let go of the cancer experience?
How do you break the news to a young child that their mom or dad has cancer?
How do you support a friend/relative who has cancer—avoid the subject or even the word?
“Cancer has many complexions,” writes Shirley Ruedy, former columnist for The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “I explored them all. I went into dark places that people hesitated to talk about: I said it was okay to wish a beloved but terminally ill family member or friend would ‘go,’ to end the unremittent suffering, for them, for us, for everyone.”
After Sundown
by Linda Howard, Linda Jones
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Danger brings together two guarded hearts in a battle for survival in this irresistible story from New York Times bestselling authors Linda Howard and Linda Jones.
Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it’s the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he’s kept his distance—until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs.