Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Miss Riddell’s Cozy Mystery Adventures – A 10 Book Boxset
by P.C. James
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Northern England. Miss Pauline Riddell can’t abide injustice. So when she gets tangled up in a suspicious homicide, she sets her sharp mind to unraveling the messy murder. And after unmasking the killer, the eagle-eyed accountant realizes she has a flair for investigation that could change her entire life.
This collection contains all ten volumes in the Miss Riddell series, with adventures spanning from 1953 to 1988. While away the hours immersed in delightfully deft prose, vivid historical details, and humorous-yet-believable plots.
Can this daring damsel track down a priceless relic? Will her sensible sobriety help her unearth a lost fortune? Does a phantom prankster stand a chance against her well-honed wits?
The Adopted Daughter
by JJ Burgess
Rating: 4.4 #ad
She says she’s his daughter. But what does she really want?
Alice and Richard are happily married and about to achieve their lifelong dream – giving up their jobs to sail around the Mediterranean on their own boat.
But shortly before they are due to leave, a young woman, Sally, appears on their doorstep and says she is Richard’s daughter, given up for adoption by his former lover…
What she finds is something she could never have imagined in her wildest nightmares…
Time of the Dragon Boxed Set 1
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What do you do when you know the world is ending? Earth is dying, and humanity is unaware. The last of the dragons have charged themselves with protecting the planet. They’ve enlisted the help of other magical creatures to aid them, but not everyone follows the rules. Some have a code of their own.
One of the last dragons born on Earth, Grey isn’t happy with his life. None of the dragons believe that the world can be saved, so why not go out with a bang? Kelsey is living her life oblivious to the magic around her, no different from any other human in the world. A chance encounter changes her whole world. #ad
OCELLICON
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.4 #ad
OCELLICON is a military science fiction story with elements of legal/detective/mystery/feminist/noir sci-fi. Earth barely survived nuclear battles until the militaries of the world took over from authoritarians. But rebellion was agitating from within. Prosecutor Major Annalisa Farrell, Military Academy honors graduate, war hero, wounded warrior, and child abuse survivor fought to champion justice. An unexpected adversary turned out to be Judge Bennett McCrae, the “Judge Prince.” In his courtroom, the Military, and the general population, he was as popular as Annalisa was hated. Before appearing before Judge McCrae, Annalisa Farrell fought in numerous conflicts, was special ops, and had missions in space where she worked side by side with aliens.
Devil In The Details
by Shelley Dorey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Just finished the series and all 3 books are wonderful. The characters are well thought out and exasperating and funny and like people I’ve known my whole life. Only I really wish that I had friends that were this entertaining! Have fun with these books that’s what they’re meant to do, give us a laugh. So enjoy them, I did!! Now I have to go look for more of her books.” by Amazon Customer
Diablo
by Richard A. Knaak
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Since the beginning of time, the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in the Eternal Conflict for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now spilled over into Sanctuary — the world of men. Determined to win mankind over to their respective causes, the forces of good and evil wage a secret war for mortal souls. This is the tale of the Sin War — the conflict that would forever change the destiny of man.
The demon-backed Triune has fallen. All that now stands in Uldyssian’s path to freeing humanity is the Cathedral of Light and its charismatic leader the Prophet. But the Prophet is actually the renegade angel Inarius, who sees the world he created as his uncontested domain.
The Venetian Affair
by Helen Macinnes
Rating: 4.4 #ad
While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American journalist works desperately to expose Communist espionage activities . . .
Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn’t his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Tabby Trouble
by Iris Leigh
Rating: 4.2 #ad
I don’t ask for much, and I know for sure I didn’t ask to communicate with cats.
But when I agree to cat sit my best friend’s cats, that’s exactly what I get for my trouble—well, that and a baffling murder mystery to solve.
Now my next-door neighbor is dead under mysterious circumstances, the talking cat is giving me orders, and my cat is missing, and somehow both are connected.
It’s up to me to figure out how and why and solve the murder in a town full of potential suspects.
The Other
by Thomas Tryon
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Holland and Niles Perry are identical 13-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud.
The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free…
Deadly Night
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors—especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white. But when he finds a human bone on the grounds and another by the river, Aidan delves into the dark history of the Flynn plantation.
Forced together to uncover the truth, Aidan and Kendall realize that a serial killer whose victims seem to vanish into thin air has long been at work…and that their own fates are about to be sealed forever unless they believe in the unbelievable.
In The Dark
by Jack Slater
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tragedy has stalked Blake Larsen her entire life. Orphaned after the violent death of her parents, her Green Beret brother Caleb was all she had left. He was there the day she graduated high school, and the first person she called after she became a federal agent.
And then the cops find him swinging from the rafters. The horrific discovery pushes Blake to the edge of despair.
But then one of Caleb’s closest friends is violently murdered outside her front door—and the killer snatches a folder from his dying fingers. It’s clear Kyle was silenced moments before coming clean. After detectives slow-walk their investigation, Blake resolves to uncover the truth. Her way.
Dead of Winter
by Anders de la Motte
Rating: 4.3 #ad
IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
WINTER 1987 Laura is excited to spend Christmas as usual with her beloved aunt Hedda and her friends. But her festive mood soon turns sour as she finds both old faces and new are keeping secrets from her. When a fire claims the life of her best friend, the scars of that night will remain with Laura for the rest of her life.
TODAY With her aunt’s death, Laura inherits the cabin village Hedda used to manage and is forced to return to the town she hasn’t set foot in since the tragedy. Laura’s presence stirs up repressed emotions in the small community and it isn’t long before a series of arson attacks casts suspicion on her.
Calculated Vendetta
by Jodie Bailey
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When army journalist Casey Jordan’s attacked, she’s convinced it’ – a random mugging – until a killer comes after the military team she’s interviewing. But who’s the real target: Casey or her ex – staff sergeant Travis Heath?
Despite an attraction that still lingers, Travis pushed Casey away months ago, convinced military life leaves no room for attachments. But when the attacks grow increasingly personal, Travis begins to question his chosen path. As the targets of a killer’s vendetta, though, it could be too late to make up for lost time . . . because he and Casey may not have a future to share.
All The Lives We Could Have Led
by Eshed Dagan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
As Avia and her son, Lavi, get off the plane in San Francisco, the first stop of their trip across the Golden State, she cannot help but feel just a little hopeful. Maybe their time together will bring them closer and even bridge the emotional chasm separating them – filled with silences and volatile, intense confrontation.
Since before her divorce, both Avia and Lavi have held on to pieces of their past – shards and fragments that continue to drive a wedge through their relationship: an abusive husband, a domineering father, illness, addiction; pieces Avia hopes to put together as they tour the landscape of Lavi’s blissful childhood, and her gravest mistakes.