Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Dead End Christmas
by Alyssa Day
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It’s Christmas time in Dead End. And this year Santa’s bringing … murder!
It’s Christmas time in Dead End, and a rash of crimes is making residents nervous. And the giant UltraShopMart that wants to move to town is pitting Dead Ender against Dead Ender.
Who’s breaking into homes and businesses? Why does the new veterinary clinic keep getting vandalized? Who’s dumping cats and dogs on the road across from the pawnshop? And why in the world is there a reindeer on the roof??
A Black and Endless Sky
by Matthew Lyons
Rating: 3.9 #ad
From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled horror-thriller set across the American Southwest.
Road trips can be hell. Siblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn’t be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah’s divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to mend their broken relationship along the way.
Two from the Heart
by James Patterson, Frank Costantini
Rating: 4.1 #ad
From the author of Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas and Sundays at Tiffany’s comes the New York Times bestseller featuring two heartwarming stories of loss, love, and the life-changing power of stories.
Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she realizes that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long-lost friends and strangers a simple question: “What’s your best story?” Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help Anne see what she’s been missing?
Mists of the Highlands
by Miranda Martin
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Torn between two worlds, two men, and two times.
While on a college-sponsored field trip to experience a real archaeology dig, Missouri University student Quinn Cameron is separated from the rest of her class by a heavy fog. A fog that transports her back in time, to 1592. Something that even her 3.8 GPA and sarcastic wit won’t be enough to help her survive.
Now she’s in a primitive world she has only studied in books. History, she learns, is a far cry from the comfort and security of her former life. And her only safe harbor from politics and violence is Duncan MacGregor, a valiant, brooding, and mysterious Scottish warrior.
Smoke
by Lisa Unger
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the final installment of her Lydia Strong series, bestselling author Lisa Unger, writing as Lisa Miscione, brings us her most shocking and emotionally wrenching case yet. An NYPD detective visits Lydia and her husband, P.I. Jeffrey Mark, to inform them that Lily, one of Lydia’s former writing students, has been missing for more than two weeks. Before she disappeared, Lily had tried to get in touch with Lydia, seeking her help.
Could this have had something to do with the death of Lily’s brother, which Lily refused to accept as a suicide?
Her Last Hour
by Daniel Hurst
Rating: 4.0 #ad
One woman. Many enemies…
Home alone on a Friday night, Katherine is anticipating a peaceful evening. But that all changes when she receives a shocking note through her letterbox…
The note tells her that she only has one hour left to live, but with no other information, Katherine has no idea who just threatened her or why. But things quickly go from bad to worse when she suspects her tormentor is already in her home and suddenly, her fight for survival begins.
Living An Awakened Life
by Julie Hoyle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Life rarely goes according to plan. Learn how to meet each challenge and view it from the highest perspective. Discover how to extract wisdom from everything that happens in your life.
Living An Awakened Life is book two in the Honoring Your Sacred Self Series. It is a fabulous resource for aligning all aspects of your life with your highest wisdom. In this book, Julie shares her in-depth experience, following her radical and life-changing awakening. She opens up about her challenges and she shares her successes. Find out how you can dive deep, grapple with your difficulties and start living true to your highest purpose and vision.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Potting Shed Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The second saga of Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt, the debut novel by Ann Hazelwood, you got to know the family and friends of Anne Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs are as familiar as your own. In this follow-up book, Anne and her fiancé, Sam, start house-hunting, or is that haunting? Once again, a quilt holds keys and clues to important family secrets, but whose family is it this time? And why would anyone hide a quilt in a potting shed? Life continues apace for Anne’s family and friends, too. Share in their joys and sorrows as Colebridge goes about every community’s business.
A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Box Set
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Social worker Billy Jo and detective Mark Friessen have nothing in common — except their commitment to protecting the innocent at all costs on a secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems…
The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. This box set collection includes Nothing as it Seems, Hiding in Plain Sight and The Cold Case
Standing by the Wall Collection
by Mick Herron
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall.
Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger–winning author of Slow Horses. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a botched information transfer, Herron’s novellas capture the drama, humor, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft, a world rife with both legends and secrets, where thrill-seeking and loneliness are ubiquitous and deadly, and where the lines between friends, enemies, and lovers are perpetually blurred by circumstance and subterfuge.
SO WE LIE
by Willow Rose
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This book kept me guessing, and I couldn’t put it down. It held me glued to the pages until the surprising end!– Goodreads reviewer
What do we do when the truth hurts too much?
Fresh out of the national academy – mother of two – FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is in over her head on her first assignment in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose’s breath-taking mystery.
When the mother of two, Arlene Wood, crashes her car against a tree at four in the morning, the case seems pretty straightforward.
The Old Scrapbook
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Old Scrapbook is real. The characters within its pages were real as well. This story is an attempt to fill in the blanks of their actual relationship. Bet and Ray met, fell in love, and got engaged until a war separated them, World War II.
Seventy years later, the old scrapbook was found, and the mysteries involved rediscovered.
I became obsessed with the scrapbook and what could have become of the young woman, Bet, who created it. I felt that woman was somehow guiding me as I wrote the story. That’s how I felt from the beginning, like I was led to that war-time scrapbook by an unseeing hand that I could feel something from its pages.
The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle
by Shuler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A South Carolina police investigator’s account of solving a thirty-seven-year-old murder—includes photos.
For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at the Walterboro Police Department. Investigators periodically revisited the case, but it remained the department’s top cold case for thirty-seven years. However, Special Agent Lieutenant Rita Shuler worked on the case shortly after she joined the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and she couldn’t let it go, not even after her retirement in 2001.
The King in Yellow, Deluxe Edition
by Robert W. Chambers
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A beautiful gift edition of the cult classic work of supernatural horror and weird fiction, which inspired H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and the first season of True Detective
The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow.
These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H.P Lovecraft to the creators of HBO’s True Detective.
The Dragon King
by R. A. Salvatore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times–bestselling fantasy trilogy from the legendary million-selling author and creator of Drizzt Do’Urden.
Luthien Bedwyr, warrior leader of an elven rebellion and crusader for justice known as the Crimson Shadow, will not rest until he vanquishes the evil Wizard-King Greensparrow forever and wipes out the tyrant’s cyclopean army. No less than the fate of Luthien’s oppressed kingdom of Eriador hangs in the balance.