Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking
by Linda Griffin
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Software engineer Reid Lucas loves to cook and has a history of falling in love with married women. When he leaves his complicated past in Chicago for a job in California, he runs into trouble and must call a virtual stranger to bail him out of jail.
Alyssa Knight, a tough street cop waiting for a church annulment from her passive-aggressive husband, is the roommate of the woman Reid calls for help, and she reluctantly provides bail for Reid.
Eyes of Prey
by John Sandford
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lucas Davenport, “one of the best hard-case cops on the crime scene today” (Houston Post) returns in this explosive novel in John Sandford’s #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series…
Lieutenant Davenport’s sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse…Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark mirror of Davenport’s soul…This is the case that will bring Davenport back to life. Or push him over the edge.
Save Me Twice
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bae Hwa is back! And in trouble again!
The beloved thirteen-year-old from The Ingenue, book two of the Jamie Austen Spy thrillers, needs rescuing again. Bae drops out of college in a quest to be the next Jamie Austen.
Can’t get enough of Jamie Austen and her obsession to save girls? This time Jamie’s mission is right here in the United States and it’s personal. Someone has kidnapped Bae and it’s a race against time to find her.
The Seventh Victim
by Michael Wood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series comes a standalone thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page…
On a cold February afternoon in 1990, seven-year-old Danny Redpath disappeared from his home. Four months later, his body was found in the nearby forest, wrapped in a sheet and washed clean of all evidence.
Apprehended while attempting to abduct another child, Jonathan Egan-Walsh was charged with the murders of more than a dozen boys. Convicted on all counts, he received life in prison and went unrepentant, still refusing to reveal the whereabouts of one of his victims, Zachery Marshall.
Veterans Code
by John Walker
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Edgar Bryce finds himself lost on a journey he never planned. Years after the end of a massive war with an alien race called the xinthal, he’s struggled to find some inner peace. Odd jobs have taken him across the galaxy, a loner in the darkness constantly staying ahead of his own thoughts, doubts, and guilt. With no real future, no sense of purpose, he seems destined to wander for the rest of his days.
Until a strange signal interrupts a simple prospecting job. A message comes in from a group of POWs lost behind enemy lines. The treaty ensured all prisoners on both sides would be returned.
One True Patriot
by Sean Parnell
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two months after taking down terrorist Aleksandr Zakayev, Eric Steele is back in action. Though he is completing his Alpha assignments with the same deadly efficiency as always, he has lingering questions about his missing father—and his own future in the Program.
When Steele gets the alert that a fellow Alpha is in serious trouble, he rushes to Paris—only to arrive too late. Jonathan Raines, Stalker Six, is dead, the victim of a brutal attack. While on leave in the City of Light, Raines had met an attractive art historian who lured him into a trap.
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.7 #ad
An ancient mystery… A skeptical genius… Powerful evil ancestors… A dangerous underworld Crime Syndicate… A horde of disembodied offspring of fallen angels who threaten the entire world!
A renowned scientist was orphaned at age eight and has grown to adulthood with no knowledge of his own ancestry. When he is awakened by an unusual visitor with an extremely urgent message, it leads to events that topple everything he has believed about reality.
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope tells of a journey of discovery, danger, and extraordinary mysteries. It follows the fantastic adventure of a young man with a surprising heritage as he uncovers the astonishing truth about his family history and the earth’s past.
Malibu Burning
by Lee Goldberg
Rating: 4.5 #ad
For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend….
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Cookies, Chamomile, and Corpses
by Catherine Bruns
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes a delicious mystery novella…
After her disastrous marriage comes to an end, Sally Muccio decides that she’s unlucky in love and returns home with hopes to start a novelty cookie shop. There’s only one thing stopping her—money.
Sal’s loveable and all-knowing grandmother agrees to help with the financial situation if Sal will do her one small favor—find out who killed her sister, Luisa. The police have already deemed Luisa’s death an accident, but Grandma Rosa is unconvinced since a valuable family teapot has disappeared as well.
They Disappeared
by Rick Mofina
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A man’s frantic search for his missing family draws him into a terrifying plot in this novel from “one of the best thriller writers in the business” (Library Journal, starred review).
Though Jeff and Sarah Griffin are teetering on divorce, they try to keep the heart-wrenching turmoil from their young son, Cole. In fact, they all travel from Montana to Manhattan to give Cole a dream vacation. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy batteries for their camera. By the time he returns, Sarah and Cole have vanished.
A Child Alone with Strangers
by Philip Fracassi
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“A Child Alone with Strangers starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer–one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places.” – Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
When young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods – using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone – there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.
The Progeny Wars Complete Series
by G.Z. Rodriguez, D.J. Vargas
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Angelica’s ordinary world is shattered when she walks in on her grandmother being attacked by a hybrid worker of darkness.
She is drawn into the world of angels and demons when she is rescued by the Daughters of the Watchers.
Will Angelica survive getting the answers she seeks? Or will she be hunted down before the truth about her family drags her into the war between Heaven and Hell?
A Second Helping of Crazy
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
“Great book for short story lovers and mystery lovers. The characters and plots are well developed and the endings always have a surprise. John knows how to keep your attention.” by Amazon Customer
Drowning Tides
by Karen Harper
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When forensic psychologist Claire Britten started working with lawyer Nick Markwood on his South Shores project, she had no idea it would endanger her life—and the life of her daughter. But when the little girl goes missing from her South Florida home, and Nick insists his longtime nemesis is to blame, Claire frantically follows the trail to the Cayman Islands, desperate to save her daughter before it’s too late.
Nick always knew the man who staged his father’s “suicide” was out to get him, but kidnapping the child of someone he cares about is despicable…
THE SUM OF OUR SORROWS
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical injury but remains deeply scarred on the inside.
Dalton tells Lily, his eldest daughter, that she must sacrifice long-awaited college plans and put her life on hold to take care of her sisters. Lily is torn between her devotion to family and an increasing need to find her place in the world — but how can she leave, knowing her family may crumble? Will her presence eventually cause more problems than it resolves?
Son of the Poison Rose
by Jonathan Maberry
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden thrones.
Kagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on his head and a reward for him—dead or alive—that would tempt a saint.
The Witch-king has new allies who bring a terrible weapon—a cursed disease that drives people into a murderous rage. If the disease is allowed to spread, the whole of the West will tear itself apart.
Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe — London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds — risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.