Friday’s Mystery eBooks
THE SPRING CLEANING MURDERS
by DOROTHY CANNELL
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a delectable English cozy murder mystery . . . to die for.
Ellie Haskell catches spring cleaning fever when several members of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen’s Association meet decidedly grisly ends . . .
Dear old Mrs Malloy, faithful housekeeper for many a year, has only gone and handed in her notice. After much despairing, Ellie employs Mrs Gertrude Large to keep her busy household running smoothly.
The Blood Witch Saga Omnibus Collection
by Theophilus Monroe
Rating: 4.8 #ad
I’m Hailey Bradbury: Hedge Witch and Vampire. My sire was staked moments after I was turned.
As a youngling, the Voodoo Queen adopted me. She taught me her art. I’ve been working with the new Mistress of the Vampire Council. She trained me in the ways of vampirism, the path of the night.
Witchcraft + Voodoo + Vampirism = what I call bloodwitchery.
Most witches won’t mess with the power latent in blood. It’s dark. It’s dangerous. But if you can master it…
You can harness the power of life itself.
Asta’s Book
by Ruth Rendell
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn’t help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary—and she continues to do so until 1967.
Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child.
The Blackhouse
by Peter May
Rating: 4.3 #ad
PETER MAY: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT MURDER TO THE OUTER HEBRIDES
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.
A MURDER Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.
A SECRET Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.
A TRAP
The Given Day
by Dennis Lehane
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two Native American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexico ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, kill again.
The Justice of Kings
by Richard Swan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics, and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the Imperial throne.
Only the Order of Justices stands in the way of chaos. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is the most feared Justice of all, upholding the law by way of his sharp mind, arcane powers, and skill as a swordsman. At his side stands Helena Sedanka, his talented protégé, orphaned by the wars that forged the Empire.
Shifter Wolves of Pleasant Valley
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A small Texas town is bursting with secrets, deceptions…and forbidden relationships with the enemy. When a wolf shifter sets eyes on his one and only—there’s no turning back. He’ll do anything to protect the woman that brings him to his knees.
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The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The CafFUNated Mysteries Collection
by Angela Ruth Strong
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Book 1: A Caffeine Conundrum: Solving a murder mystery is harder when you don’t trust your partner…or their taste in beverages.
Book2: A Cuppa Trouble: Can a couple of baristas chase down a car thief without spilling a drop of their favorite drink?
Book 3: A Latte Difficulty: Can two baristas track down a gunman after the espresso shot heard ‘round the world?
Book 4: A Mug of Mayhem Book: When their wedding venue becomes a crime scene, the bride and groom are in for a real trick-or-treat.
Bad Medicine
by Geoffrey M. Cooper
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What can go wrong when a scientist’s career hinges on the results of a clinical trial? When Professor Brad Parker is asked to serve as interim director of the Maine Translational Research Institute, he thinks he’ll have nothing more on his hands than a messy dispute between two faculty members. But what awaits him is far worse. Rather than an ordinary academic conflict, Brad finds himself dealing with sabotage, blackmail, and the mysterious deaths of patients in a clinical trial.
Para-Military Recruiter Boxed Set
by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Julie Meadows is down on her luck when she receives an e-mail drafting her into the Official Para-Military Agency.
With the help of Taylor and a snarky mystical artifact, Julie races against the clock to avoid a killer mind-wipe.
Should she succeed, her place at OPMA will be secure. If she fails, avoiding her mom’s insistence on the health benefits of aloe vera juice won’t be a problem anymore.
Get the first 4 books in the best-selling Para-Military Recruiter series to find out why fans are enjoying the series!
Midsummer Mysteries
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Agatha Christie’s most famous characters – including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple – solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery.
Summertime – as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to the French Riviera, whether against a background of Delphic temples or English country houses, Agatha Christie’s most famous characters solve complicated puzzles as the stakes heat up. Pull up a deckchair and enjoy plot twists and red herrings galore from the bestselling fiction writer of all time.
More Work for the Undertaker
by Margery Allingham
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A beggarwoman on a bench arouses Albert Campion’s curiosity—and helps Scotland Yard lure him into a case of family dysfunction. The seemingly destitute woman is none other than a member of the eccentric Palinode family, which has recently lost two of its members. The police suspect a poisoner is on the loose, which is why Campion is willing to go undercover as a lodger in the boardinghouse where they live.
As the recently deceased are exhumed, Campion becomes acquainted with the old-fashioned, out-of-the-ordinary family members, who talk in crossword puzzle clues, sneak out at night, and cook vats of stinky food in the basement to save money…
WarCraft: War of The Ancients # 3
by Richard A. Knaak
Rating: 4.8 #ad
In the final, apocalyptic chapter of this epic trilogy, the dragon-mage Krasus and the young druid Malfurion must risk everything to save Azeroth from utter destruction. Banding together the dwarves, tauren and furbolg races, the heroes hope to spark an alliance to stand against the might of the Burning Legion. For if the Demon Soul should fall into the Legion’s hands, all hope for the world will be lost. This then, is the hour…where past and future collide!
The Curious Eat Themselves
by John Straley
Rating: 4.1 #ad
When Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of a web of secrets and deadly repercussions—usually not found in the world of environmental politics. Not only that, it seems everyone suddenly wants Younger’s help: his old friend, Doggy, the DA; his autistic roommate, Todd, whose Labrador retriever has disappeared; an image-conscious environmental activist; and even the sleazy executives of Global Mining, whose interest in the case is a more than a little suspicious.
Scouts
by William Black
Rating: 3.8 #ad
It’s 1868 and many people are relying on the skills of scout Drake Sagewater.
Drake is helping settlers on their way to California. The Andrews family, riding in a canvas wagon, has been attacked by a shrewd renegade from the Apache Nation, named Jace.
With a rag-tagged band of fellow renegades, Jace is making life miserable, and sometimes deadly, for settlers. That is the case with the migrating Andrews family, who loses their patriarch, Jed Andrews, in a raid. While seeking justice, Jed’s daughter, Lydia, takes a shine to the handsome young Drake Sagewater.