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.
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.