Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Deception
by Timothy Glass
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The discovery of a young woman’s body in a ditch sets the town of Lakewood on edge. As more people go missing, the Lakewood Police suspect there is a serial killer targeting their city. Other than the motive appears to be money, there are few clues and little evidence to go on. As more bodies are found, tortured, and discarded like trash, Detectives Connor Maxwell, Kate Stroup, and K9 beagle, Sundae, feel the pressure to catch the dangerous criminal in their midst. Is the killer purposefully leaving misleading clues or just lucky?
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(Connor Maxwell Mysteries)
White Fox
by Owen Matthews
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A page-turning thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK.
1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy’s death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin’s new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin, are sent to disappear and die quietly. But when tensions in the camp mount and a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy.
Grey for Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Zitter Wilson agrees to trade houses for the summer with a friend, which means traveling to Scotland. Scotland is strange to her, but she might enjoy the experience were it not for finding a dead man in the yard next to hers, meeting a rude neighbor, being falsely arrested on a drug charge and being adopted by a mischievous cat that likes to tangle her crochet basket and destroy her Create A Mate creations.
Once Zitter forgives neighbor Roper Nickles for his initial rudeness, their relationship quickly spirals into…love? That part is a bit confusing, because someone is determined to oust her from her borrowed house, and when Roper’s friend Scooter shows up to watch her back – she is inexplicably drawn to him.
The Pied Piper
by Ridley Pearson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A wave of babynappings has terrified parents from San Diego to Portland. And when the Pied Piper — named for the penny flute he leaves in the cribs of his victims — claims his first Seattle infant, the investigation draws in homicide detective Lou Boldt. Assigned temporarily to Intelligence so he can spend more time with his kids while his wife is hospitalized for chemotherapy, Boldt’s role is to keep the FBI out of the Seattle Police Department’s way.
But FBI special agent Gary Flemming is a tough adversary — so tough it almost seems as if he’s intentionally sabotaging the SPD’s investigation. Then the Pied Piper snatches Boldt’s own daughter, promising that unless Boldt throws both the Feds and the SPD off his trail he’ll never see his child again.
By the Light of Dead Stars
by Andrew Van Wey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
On the Lost Coast, some things should never be found.
When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Zelda Ruiz’s adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. It’s a chance to heal, a chance to build a new life together.
But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror that has long coveted these lands.
It looms over redwood groves and lurks in the foundations of homes. It festers in the dark hearts of the wounded. And now, this cosmic horror has found a new weapon: a means to worm its way into our world.
Bad Blood
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Here comes another western adventure of relentless action, obstacles and a touch of western romance Sometimes good men do bad things.
Finch Collins grew up on the wrong side of the law, stealing from people who never did a thing to him. But when he had to choose between money or a boy’s life, he did what was right. And he’s been paying for it ever since.
When he left Pike Hudson’s gang, he left a lot of bad blood between them. Pike swore he’d find Finch wherever he went. But it’s been eight years, and Finch is starting to feel safe again.
Funny Meeting You Here
by Holly Schindler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Cross paths. Bump into. Encounter. Come face-to-face. Three cheers for the happy accident!
Oftentimes, the very best part of a story is the section in which the characters meet. The initial spark. The twists of fate. The you’ll never believe what happened to me todays. That’s what you’ll find here: a delightful array of characters – young and old and in-between – meeting for the first time in the most unexpected ways. Six light, humorous, sweet tales of how they came into one another’s lives. When you’re through, you’ll find yourself feeling glad to have spent time with them. Yes, you’ll think, thumbing back through the pages, funny meeting them here.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
Philip Marlowe’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
12 PILLS
by Kirk Burris
Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you like Michael Connelly or James Patterson, you’ll love Kirk Burris.
A maniacal serial killer is on the loose in Kansas City. And the calling card is an orange pill bottle shoved down the throats of the victims. Their caps are numbered in sharpie, announcing more to come. FBI Agent Whelan, traumatized from the loss of his former partner, is asked by The Bureau to join the manhunt. The murderer is targeting his childhood friends.
The fourth victim, discovered in Miami, whips the investigation across the country. Unsure who to trust, Whelan battles corruption inside the K.C. field office, and an interfering media, whose leaked video of one of the victims goes viral.
The Burning Hollow
by Ryan Schow
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A fourth-generation farm…
…tucked into the Tennessee holler.
Is this the Banks family’s best chance of surviving the EMP?
In the near future, in the picturesque town of Burning Hollow, Tennessee, a century-old squabble between two families is brewing. For four generations, blood has spilled between the patriarchs, shifting the tides of power. But after each significant change, a new war begins. It’s that time again…
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(Sunset on America Mysteries)
Beast
by Matt Wesolowski
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local ‘vampire tower’, in another explosive episode of Six Stories…
‘Matt Wesolowski brilliantly depicts a desperate and disturbed corner of north-east England in which paranoia reigns and goodness is thwarted. It’s a big ask to come up with a new vampire tale, but Wesolowski achieves it magnificently. He is an exceptional storyteller’ Andrew Michael Hurley
Sunset in Old Savannah
by Mary Ellis
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When socialite Evelyn Doyle hires investigative partners and best friends Michael Preston and Elizabeth Kirby to do some routine surveillance on her wayward husband, the detective duo find themselves embroiled in a mystery with more suspects than there are shells on Tybee Island.
Evelyn’s husband turns up dead, leaving her as the police chief’s prime target. The investigation reveals a hodgepodge of potential murderers, including a scheming business partner, a resentful mistress, and a ne’er-do-well brother. It’s up to Mike and Beth to follow the trail of secrets that reaches further than the branches of the moss-draped oaks of Savannah.
The Silicon Mage
by Barbara Hambly
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A computer programmer must rescue an imprisoned wizard to save the universe in this sequel to The Silent Tower from the New York Times–bestselling author.
There was a time when Joanna Sheraton knew nothing of the Void. She was an ordinary computer programmer, toiling in a cubicle in air-conditioned Southern California comfort, unaware that sinister forces had penetrated her universe. But from across the interdimensional divide, an evil mage had put in motion a scheme for eternal life, by transferring himself into a computer that feeds on Earth’s life force. Called upon to help by the wizard Antryg, Joanna could do nothing more than delay. At the end of her first sojourn across the Void, Antryg was imprisoned and their task seemed hopeless. Now she must depart from Earth once more, to rescue Antryg and save humanity.
Pink Lemonade Cake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 3.8 #ad
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The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest . . .
A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end – and, considering the rumors swirling about his past, the list of suspects could fill a small stadium. Among them could soon be Delores, Hannah’s mother, who publicly held a grunge against the victim after he infamously dunked her in the tank at a previous county fair . . .