Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Wrong Side of the Claw
by Leighann Dobbs
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Bookstore owner Willa Chance has no idea that things in Mystic Notch are about to take a turn for the worse.
When a string of robberies escalates to murder, Willa is baffled by the behavior of her sister, the county sheriff. Normally the gung-ho lawwoman would be all over the case, but she seems more interested in doing her nails and picking out jazz music instead.
Willa has no choice but to take it upon herself to investigate. After all, her sister’s reputation is at stake, and a killer is running loose around town. Plus she has a secret weapon—she can see ghosts. Talking to the spirit of a murder victim usually helps solve the case, but not this time.
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(Mystic Notch Cozy Mystery)
Episode Thirteen
by Craig DiLouie
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts.
Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter’s holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It’s also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it.
The Charlie Kingsley Mysteries Books 1-3
by Michele PW
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Meet Charlie Kingsley. Also known as “Aunt Charlie” from the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. She’s back, making teas and solving cases in this funny, twisty, cozy mystery series set in the 1990s in Redemption, Wisconsin.
The Murder Before Christmas: A dead husband. A pregnant wife. A poisoned Christmas gift. Can Charlie discover the grinch who stole Christmas?
Ice Cold Murder: What do you get when you combine an estranged family, a blizzard, a haunted house … and murder? The world’s WORST family gathering. Ever.
Murder Next Door: Everyone knows vampires don’t exist. Which means the house sitter living next to Mildred, one of Charlie’s customers, can’t possibly be a vampire. Right?
The Misfit Soldier
by Michael Mammay
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ocean’s Eleven meets John Scalzi in this funny, action-filled, stand-alone sci-fi adventure from the author of Planetside, in which a small team of misfit soldiers takes on a mission that could change the entire galaxy.
Sergeant Gastovsky—Gas to everyone but his superior officers—never wanted to be a soldier. Far from it. But when a con goes wrong and he needs a place to lay low for a while, he finds himself wearing the power armor of the augmented infantry.
After three years on a six-year contract, Gas has found his groove running low-level cons and various illegal activities that make him good money on the side. He’s the guy who can get you what you need. But he’s always had his eye out for a big score—the one that might set him up for life after the military.
Two Steps Forward
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray expects the unexpected. Just not this time. Just not this way. Just not on his honeymoon.
An unexpected encounter in Morocco . . . Titus and Nikki begin their new life together in a church ceremony in Norman, Oklahoma and immediately fly to Marrakesh, Morocco for their honeymoon. Then, the unexpected happens, and Titus has an encounter with Jihadi terrorist Baran Asan.
An unexpected discovery in Israel . . . Cutting their honeymoon short, Titus and Nikki head over to Israel to search for their foster child’s grandmother, but then an unexpected discovery leads to a second sighting of Baran Asan and reveals disturbing news about a planned assassination in Iraq.
An unexpected assassination in Iraq . . .
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(Titus Ray Thrillers)
Behold a Fair Woman
by Francis Duncan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Beware murder in paradise
Mordecai Tremaine’s hobby of choice –crime detection– has left him in need of a holiday. A break away from that gruesome business of murder will be just the ticket, and the picturesque island of Moulin d’Or seems to be just the destination.
Amid the sunshine and the sea air, Mordecai falls in with a band of fellow holidaymakers and tries to forget that such a thing as foul play exists. Before too long, however, villainy rears its ugly head and a dead body is discovered.
The Lucky Ones
by Tiffany Reisz
Rating: 4.4 #ad
They were seven children either orphaned or abandoned by their parents and chosen by legendary philanthropist and brain surgeon Dr. Vincent Capello to live in The Dragon, his almost magical beach house on the Oregon Coast. Allison was the youngest of the lucky ones living an idyllic life with her newfound family…until the night she almost died, and was then whisked away from the house and her adopted family forever.
Now, thirteen years later, Allison receives a letter from Roland, Dr. Capello’s oldest son, warning her that their father is ill and in his final days. Allison determines she must go home again and confront the ghosts of her past.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Martians in Maggody
by Joan Hess
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Police chief Arly Hanks tries to keep her head when the people of Maggody get UFO fever in this uproarious cozy mystery.
Life is so boring in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, the locals have resorted to reading supermarket tabloids, gobbling up every rumor of wolf men, zombies, and creatures from outer space they can get their hands on. And as the only sane woman in town, Chief of Police Arly Hanks just smiles and nods whenever her neighbors rave about the latest conspiracy theories. But to Arly’s eternal horror, it looks like Maggody is about to become ground zero for an extraterrestrial invasion. The aliens will never know what hit ’em…
Deadly Bequests
by Peter Ralph
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When Josh Kennelly sees a scarred and mistreated dog named Satan facing death in an animal center, he saves him, and they become inseparable.
The pair face potent forces when they stumble across an evil scam to defraud and murder New Orleans’s elderly citizens.
Jack Fontaine calls himself a criminal lawyer when he’s really a criminal and a lawyer. Sandra Norton is your everyday banker, but Fontaine sucks her into his scam when her greed quashes her decency.
When a criminal lawyer and a corrupt banker get together, their clients stand to lose their lives and money.
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(Josh Kennelly Mysteries)
Briggleton’s Choir
by Kelsie Deschenes
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The age-old German-chasing-the-Jew tale takes a different turn in this book as the conflicts of World War II are seen through the eyes of a Nazi’s young adolescent son.
To Alfonso, it’s confusing that while he gets in trouble for bullying at school, his father then turns around and becomes a hero for shooting a group of Jews. While General Adelric sits in the seat of respect, he sends his son to a boys’ boarding school that specializes in teaching morals. Knowing nothing besides walking in his father’s footsteps, Alfonso continues to be the school bully and gets into more trouble. Then one day, he meets someone who has many things he lacks-confidence, a joy in life, faith, and an incredible voice.
Testimony
by Scott Turow
Rating: 4.0 #ad
At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his law career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped by the International Criminal Court–an organization charged with prosecuting crimes against humanity–he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. Over ten years ago, in the apocalyptic chaos following the Bosnian war, an entire Roma refugee camp vanished. Now for the first time, a witness has stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the camp’s Gypsy residents to a cave in the middle of the night–and then with a hand grenade set off an avalanche, burying 400 people alive. Only Ferko survived.
The Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone Omnibus Two
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“I luv the books in this universe! It’s full of more twists and more mystery than you can keep up with! The Brownstone family is tough. What he is comes out in the last few pages of the final book in this box set. No I’m not going to lie to you, you already know he’s an alien, but what kind? Is he a good man or will he become a monster? No way, not our James! I refuse to believe that! He has to many people he cares about ( even a new dog) . Don’t miss this outstanding book set. Highly recommended!!!!!!” by Amazon Customer
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(The Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone Omnibus)
A Grave Mistake
by Ngaio Marsh
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sybil Foster lives the sort of little English village that is home mostly to the very rich and the servants who make their lives delightful. But Sybil Foster’s life is not delightful, even if she does have an extremely talented gardener. Exhausted from her various family stresses—a daughter, for instance, who wants to marry a man without a title!—Sybil takes herself off to a local hotel that specializes in soothing shattered nerves. When she’s killed, Inspector Alleyn has a real puzzler on his hands: Yes, she was silly, snobbish, and irritating. But if that were enough motive for murder, half of England would be six feet under . . .
Voice of the Violin
by Andrea Camilleri
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Inspector Montalbano, praised as “a delightful creation” (USA Today), has been compared to the legendary detectives of Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. As the fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling series opens, Montalbano’s gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim’s friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate… But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.
Her Forgotten Life
by Maggie K. Black
Rating: 4.8 #ad
To protect her baby she needs to remember who she is.
Gunshot victim Sara Kilpatrick has no memory of her life before she ended up in an Amish farmhouse—or why someone’s trying to kill her. But when clues lead to her own gravestone, Sara discovers a deadly conspiracy—and a husband and baby she doesn’t remember. And uncovering the truth could cost her everything…including the family she just found.
Her Shifter Fire Chief
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.6 #ad
He was supposed to save my bed and breakfast from burning down.
Instead… he accused me of starting the fire. Not only that… he then threw me over his shoulder and locked me in his truck. Let me get this straight. I’m not an arsonist.
My only wish is to keep my bed and breakfast running along with the seven women I grew up with.
That was until this fire chief came along. Now my goal is to keep my distance from him. He could be working for the clan of wolf shifters that tried to kill me when I was born.