Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Run!
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The nightmare begins when James Elliot gets lost on a dark, foggy country road. When he stops at a house to ask for directions, a woman rushes out and tells him to run. Seconds later, shots are fired.
After they escape the unknown shooter, Aspidistra Aspinall says she’s an orphan and has no idea who’s after her. She tells an incredible story about a dying aunt and a priceless diamond necklace. When they meet again at the home of James’s cousin, she goes by the name Sally West.
More Than Meets the Eye
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After scoring a plea deal in a high-profile murder trial, serial killer James Michael Barrett leads a grim parade of law enforcement officers to the body of his last victim. At the alleged burial site, the officers swing their shovels down and are met with a strange metallic sound they weren’t expecting. In a blink, a terrific explosion rocks the woods, killing Barrett and most of the officers instantly.
The detonation is only the beginning of a shocking case for FBI consultant Kendra Michaels—a string of heinous murders in the style of the very-dead Barrett mysteriously continue, and it becomes clear that he may not have been working alone.
Deep Dark Night
by Steph Broadribb
Rating: 4.2 #ad
‘My kind of book’ Lee Child
A city in darkness. A building in lockdown. A score that can only be settled in blood…
Working off the books for FBI Special Agent Alex Monroe, Florida bounty-hunter Lori Anderson and her partner, JT, head to Chicago. Their mission: to entrap the head of the Cabressa crime family. The bait: a priceless chess set that Cabressa is determined to add to his collection.
Brett Wilson and Coronado’s Door
by John Suter
Rating: 4.7 #ad
On a treasure hunting expedition with her father, Brett Wilson watches her father enter the fabled golden city of Cibola. The joy of discovery quickly turns to tragedy when the city disappears in front of her eyes.
Now in a race against time, Brett must locate the city before her father is lost forever. The only information she has to help her is the tattered old field book of her father and her best friend Natalie’s energy and enthusiasm. Together with Grandpa Jake and Natalie’s mom Dr. Brown, they must decipher the clues in the field book and understand the earth’s hidden properties to locate Cibola’s final position.
Creature
by Flint Maxwell
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Not all monsters belong to the movies…
In the fall of 2008, John Carver’s older brother, Owen, goes missing. He is found dead a few days later, his body torn apart by the local wildlife. Despite reports of strange noises heard at the time of Owen’s disappearance, the police rule the tragedy as “a death by misadventure.”
Fast forward to the summer of 2009.
To cope with his brother’s passing, John dives into the art of filmmaking. Armed with a camcorder and his two closest friends, Ali and Becca, he begins work on a horror movie with the hopes of winning the local Harvest Festival Short Film Contest and a prize of a thousand dollars. The work proves difficult but rewarding.
Death Before Dragons (Books 1-3)
by Lindsay Buroker
Rating: 4.7 #ad
I’m Val Thorvald, and I kill bad guys for a living.
My half-elven blood, magical sword, and telepathic tiger give me an edge, at least against most villains. But when dragons show up in Seattle, the city is in serious trouble – and so am I. Dragons are bigger, stronger, and more powerful than anything I’ve battled, and they don’t appreciate it when you sass them.
Just ask Lord Zavryd’nokquetal. That’s a name, not a cat hacking up a hairball, and if you mispronounce it, he’ll either insult you, incinerate you, or throw your Jeep up in a tree. Trust me, I know.
Berserker of Gambria
by pdmac
Rating: 5.0 #ad
With their spaceship destroyed, the remaining two survivors of a failed colonization mission jettison down to a planet with the hope they can survive. Duncan, a bookish linguist, and Alexis, a beautiful gladiator in the prime of her career, suddenly find themselves drawn into the struggles between two warring kingdoms. Their fortunes improve when Alexis’ combat skills are discovered, and she is challenged by the nation’s berserker who underestimates his opponent and pays dearly for it. Yet no sooner is she awarded his position, title, and wealth when she is called upon to lead the nation’s warriors in the first full scale battle she has ever experienced, against an enemy who take no prisoners.
Two Mothers: A Saigon Pilgrimage
by Linda Cardillo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A young journalist covering the fall of Saigon. A desperate woman willing to sacrifice to save her child. Thousands of children awaiting rescue. An ex-Marine physician devoted to their care…
Together, they discover the meaning of love in the midst of despair.
Mel Ames isn’t someone who believes in fate. In fact, she isn’t sure she believes in anything—except her own wits, her powers of observation and her pen.
After covering antiwar demonstrations and political stories as an undergraduate at Columbia University, she talks her way into an assignment as a stringer for Newsweek and boards a plane bound for Saigon.
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Covert in Cairo
by Kelly Oliver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Cairo. December 1917. Following a tip-off from notorious spy Fredrick Fredricks, Fiona Figg and Kitty Lane of British Intelligence find themselves in the hustle and bustle of Egypt. But ancient mummies aren’t the only bodies buried in the tombs of Cairo.
When a young French archeologist is found dead in a tomb in the desert with his head bashed in, and an undercover British agent goes missing, the threat moves closer to home.
Vengeance in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In this In Death novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb, Lieutenant Eve Dallas learns that when technology links the law and the lawless, predators and prey can become one and the same…
He is an expert with the latest technology…a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit—always solved moments too late to save his victims’ lives. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment…
The Kind Worth Saving
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him.
There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private investigator Henry Kimball’s office asking him to investigate her husband, he can’t help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy…
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear’s beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire—the fastest fighter aircraft in the world—to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
The Couple at Number 9
by Claire Douglas
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The Victims . . . When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering human remains. The remains of two bodies, in fact.
The Investigation . . . Forensics indicate the bodies have been buried at least thirty years. Saffy has nothing to worry about—until the police launch a murder inquiry and ask to speak to the cottage’s former owner. Her grandmother, Rose.
The Witness . . .
Dangerous Games
by Lydia Hall
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rich, powerful, cruel, older and dominant. I’m everything she hates… and everything she can’t resist.
Nanette Slater is my new hitman’s sister. Unfortunately for the pretty brunette, her brother is no good at his job, which means Nanette ends up kidnapped and in my bed…
Unless he makes good on his promise, I’m keeping his sister to myself. Not that I’m complaining.
It’s My Pleasure
by Michal Prins
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Most couples know what they want. But they don’t know how to want it.
Pop culture is always telling us about dreary monogamous partnerships – cheating husbands, reluctant wives, and zero passion. We’re inundated with clichés about long-term relationships and communication. Experts focus on what couples should want, but not on how they should get there. They’re always talking about willingness and consent. They forget about desire.
In It’s My Pleasure, revolutionary couples counselor and human sexuality expert Dr. Michal Prins presents a radical, practical method to invigorate your sex life in a long-term relationship.