Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
What Happened to the Bennetts
by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same.
Now you have to choose between law…and justice.
Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.
The Lodge
by Miranda Rijks
Rating: 4.4 #ad
She expected the holiday of a lifetime. She got a trip to hell.
Anna has rebuilt her life after a toxic relationship with her obsessive, controlling ex, Clayton. She’s finally found happiness with her fiancé, Joel, a veterinarian in the running for a dream job on a game reserve in South Africa.
When Joel is asked to interview at the luxurious safari lodge, Anna is delighted to be invited too. But her exotic holiday takes a sinister turn when she discovers that toxic ex Clayton is also a guest at the lodge.
Clayton seems happy with his new girlfriend, but Anna isn’t buying it. She doesn’t believe in coincidences, and her gut tells her that Clayton is here for all the wrong reasons.
The Berwyn River Killings
by Simon McCleave
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A double suicide. A dark investigation into historic abuse. Can DI Ruth Hunter link the present killings to secrets of the past before the killer strikes again?
Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter has resolved to put her past life in London behind her. So when two seemingly routine suicides start to look suspicious, Ruth is keen to throw herself into a new investigation, lead her CID team and solve what appears to be a complex case. However, as the former London detective digs into the past of the victims’ lives, she uncovers a dark web of abuse within the music industry.
Three Missing Days
by Colleen Coble
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Police Chief Jane Hardy’s teenage son has been accused of a horrific crime—and three days of Jane’s memories have been stolen from her. In the gripping third installment of the Pelican Harbor series, the truth is finally coming out.
Chief of Police Jane Hardy plunges into the investigation of a house fire that claimed the life of a local woman as well as one of the firefighters. It’s clear the woman was murdered. But why? The unraveling of Jane’s personal life makes answers for the case even more difficult to find.
Then Jane’s fifteen-year-old son is accused of a terrible crime, and she has to decide if she can trust her ex, Reid, to help her prove Will’s innocence—and if she can trust Reid with her heart.
Hell’s Kitchen
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Every New York City neighborhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell’s Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout and former stuntman is in the Big Apple hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Kitchen residents – such as Ettie Washington – in a no‑budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages the elderly woman’s crumbling tenement, Pellam realizes that someone might want the past to stay buried.
Shenanigans
by Mercedes Lackey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Heralds of Valdemar are the kingdom’s ancient order of protectors. They are drawn from all across the land, from all walks of life, and at all ages–and all are Gifted with abilities beyond those of normal men and women. They are Mindspeakers, FarSeers, Empaths, ForeSeers, Firestarters, FarSpeakers, and more. These inborn talents–combined with training as emissaries, spies, judges, diplomats, scouts, counselors, warriors, and more–make them indispensable to their monarch and realm. Sought and Chosen by mysterious horse-like Companions, they are bonded for life to these telepathic, enigmatic creatures. The Heralds of Valdemar and their Companions ride circuit throughout the kingdom, protecting the peace and, when necessary, defending their land and monarch.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Taylor Texas Box set (Books 1-3)
by Vikki Walton
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Down-home Texas Hill Country cozy mysteries!
Join Christie Taylor and all her quirky friends and relatives as she solves mysteries and bakes delicious pies. If you’re a fan of small-town mysteries, down-home faith and values, and the Lone Star State, don’t miss out. You won’t want to read hungry! Recipes are included in each book.
Book 1: Death Takes A Break
Book 2: Death Makes A Move
Book 3: Death Stakes A Claim
The Lost Summers of Newport
by Multiple Auhtors
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White – a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.
“Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies…This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts…
The Tome of Syyx
by Stavros Saristavros
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Orcs and hobgoblins are far from the only threats to peace on the frontier.
When Zom, Akke, and their team of misfits, defeat a foe that refuses to bleed, they find themselves drawn into a web of peril that goes far beyond anything they’ve experienced before.
Dragons are rumored to once again fly, and an imprisoned god returns to plague the world. To overcome the odds and defeat the forces of darkness, they must seek out unlikely allies and put aside rivalries.
But is the enemy of my enemy my friend? And can all friends be trusted?
Snake Eyes
by Bitty Martin
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The story begins when 13-year-old Cathie Ward was found dead after horseback riding at Blacksnake Ranch on the outskirts of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Frank Davis, the owner of the ranch, tells authorities Cathie’s death is an accident. He claims her foot caught in a stirrup and she was dragged to her death despite his pursuit of the runaway horse. People who know the 42-year-old skilled horseman don’t believe his story, and soon rumors of her rape and murder begin swirling around town.
The Japanese Box and Other Stories
by Jennifer Anne Gordon
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“The precision of observation here speaks not only to the honesty of the writer, but to the respect granted in all phases of life; Jennifer Anne Gordon is on full display. Smart, full of character, vibrant. You will feel, you will feel big, and you will return, too, to the richest moments of your own history, landmarks that bring you to both smile and weep.” – Josh Malerman New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Daphne
The Werewolf Principle
by Clifford D. Simak
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Many centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported back to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does not recognize—a world of flying cars and sentient floating houses—with no memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But he has not returned alone. The last survivor of a radical experiment abandoned more than a century earlier, Blake was genetically altered to be able to adapt to extreme alien environments, and now he can sense other presences inhabiting his mind and body. One is a biological computer of astonishing power; the other is a powerful creature akin to a large wolf.
Early Autumn
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own.
With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.