Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Tabby Trouble
by Iris Leigh
Rating: 4.2 #ad
I don’t ask for much, and I know for sure I didn’t ask to communicate with cats.
But when I agree to cat sit my best friend’s cats, that’s exactly what I get for my trouble—well, that and a baffling murder mystery to solve.
Now my next-door neighbor is dead under mysterious circumstances, the talking cat is giving me orders, and my cat is missing, and somehow both are connected.
It’s up to me to figure out how and why and solve the murder in a town full of potential suspects.
The Other
by Thomas Tryon
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Holland and Niles Perry are identical 13-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud.
The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free…
Deadly Night
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the haunted-house rumors—especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white. But when he finds a human bone on the grounds and another by the river, Aidan delves into the dark history of the Flynn plantation.
Forced together to uncover the truth, Aidan and Kendall realize that a serial killer whose victims seem to vanish into thin air has long been at work…and that their own fates are about to be sealed forever unless they believe in the unbelievable.
In The Dark
by Jack Slater
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Tragedy has stalked Blake Larsen her entire life. Orphaned after the violent death of her parents, her Green Beret brother Caleb was all she had left. He was there the day she graduated high school, and the first person she called after she became a federal agent.
And then the cops find him swinging from the rafters. The horrific discovery pushes Blake to the edge of despair.
But then one of Caleb’s closest friends is violently murdered outside her front door—and the killer snatches a folder from his dying fingers. It’s clear Kyle was silenced moments before coming clean. After detectives slow-walk their investigation, Blake resolves to uncover the truth. Her way.
Dead of Winter
by Anders de la Motte
Rating: 4.3 #ad
IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
WINTER 1987 Laura is excited to spend Christmas as usual with her beloved aunt Hedda and her friends. But her festive mood soon turns sour as she finds both old faces and new are keeping secrets from her. When a fire claims the life of her best friend, the scars of that night will remain with Laura for the rest of her life.
TODAY With her aunt’s death, Laura inherits the cabin village Hedda used to manage and is forced to return to the town she hasn’t set foot in since the tragedy. Laura’s presence stirs up repressed emotions in the small community and it isn’t long before a series of arson attacks casts suspicion on her.
Calculated Vendetta
by Jodie Bailey
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When army journalist Casey Jordan’s attacked, she’s convinced it’ – a random mugging – until a killer comes after the military team she’s interviewing. But who’s the real target: Casey or her ex – staff sergeant Travis Heath?
Despite an attraction that still lingers, Travis pushed Casey away months ago, convinced military life leaves no room for attachments. But when the attacks grow increasingly personal, Travis begins to question his chosen path. As the targets of a killer’s vendetta, though, it could be too late to make up for lost time . . . because he and Casey may not have a future to share.
All The Lives We Could Have Led
by Eshed Dagan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
As Avia and her son, Lavi, get off the plane in San Francisco, the first stop of their trip across the Golden State, she cannot help but feel just a little hopeful. Maybe their time together will bring them closer and even bridge the emotional chasm separating them – filled with silences and volatile, intense confrontation.
Since before her divorce, both Avia and Lavi have held on to pieces of their past – shards and fragments that continue to drive a wedge through their relationship: an abusive husband, a domineering father, illness, addiction; pieces Avia hopes to put together as they tour the landscape of Lavi’s blissful childhood, and her gravest mistakes.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dogs and More Dogs, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An abandoned house, an abundance of dogs. And a dead body or two. Sheridan Hendley’s volunteer position at Pets and Paws takes a new turn when more than twenty malnourished dogs are found at a rundown house on the outskirts of town. When the body of an elderly woman is found amidst mountains of clutter in the house, a search of the property leads to startling revelations. And another body. While Herman Stoneham’s death is deemed natural causes, his wife’s is not.
Where did all the dogs come from and who’s responsible for Justine’s untimely death? Are the two connected? With dogs and murder at stake, Sheridan can’t help but get involved in the investigation. If you love dogs and mysteries, this one is for you.
The Recruiter
by Ilan Arad
Rating: 4.8 #ad
He is a well-known director. She is an international model. Both are not who they seem to be.
For David, it was supposed to be just another commercial gig: pick up the talent, film the commercial, and get paid. Being a well-known film director and an infamous industry womanizer, David thought his only care in the world was his frequent vice of shadowy “massage parlors.” But that all changed when he met Isabella – a stunning model with secrets of her own.
Through Isabella, David becomes aware of the underbelly of the world he thought he knew: a world of sex work, human trafficking, violence, and questionable morality. As the tall, dark, and mysterious woman draws him closer, David must make a choice: He can walk away from all of it.
Monster
by Adam Nicholls
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Evil is best fought from within.
When Mason Black is first called out to investigate the disappearance of three teenagers, he never truly believed he would find their bodies. Especially not with human bite marks embedded in their remains.
While the police are breathing down his neck, Mason finds himself trapped in the deep underground world of a cannibalistic cult, working his way toward the truth from the inside. But then a shocking secret is revealed, and it will change his life forever.
We Ride the Storm
by Devin Madson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
War built the Kisian Empire. War will tear it down.
Seventeen years after rebels stormed the streets, factions divide Kisia. Only the firm hand of the god-emperor holds the empire together. But when an unexpected betrayal destroys a tense alliance with neighboring Chiltae, all that has been won comes crashing down.
In Kisia, Princess Miko Ts’ai is a prisoner in her own castle. She dreams of claiming her empire, but the path to power could rip it, and her family, asunder.
The Glass Ocean
by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century – two deep in the past, one in the present – to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
May 2013
Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. . . .
A Change of Circumstance
by Susan Hill
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Susan Hill’s acclaimed crime series featuring the enigmatic detective Simon Serrailler, Hill yet again raises the stakes.
Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler has long regarded drug ops in Lafferton as a waste of time. The small-time dealers picked up outside the local high school can’t or won’t turn in any valuable names, so they’re merely given a fine and the trail runs cold.
But when the body of a twenty-two-year-old is found in neighboring Starley, the case pulls DCS Simon Serrailler into the underbelly of an elaborate drug operation that moves narcotics from the cities into the suburbs and right down to villages. The foot soldiers?
A Widow’s Journey
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Lottie Sinclair’s ordinary life takes a dramatic turn after one fateful night.
Her husband is walking home from his long shift in the town’s mines when he is attacked and killed by a masked gang. A few weeks later, more aggressors invade Lottie’s home and kidnap her two sons.
Suddenly, she is all alone. Her family is gone, and she doesn’t know why.
A couple of townsfolk claim they saw the Comanches riding through town last night. They are the ones that took Lottie’s sons.