Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Golden Egg
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Commissario Brunetti’s latest assignment is to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor’s future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti’s wife comes to him with a request of her own. The sweet, simple-minded man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.
Brunetti begins to investigate and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver’s license, no credit cards…
Crimes of the Blood Cults
by Fredrick Niles
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The streets of Blackburg run red with the blood of the sacrificed.
Strange rumors of figures in black robes are circulating, people are disappearing, bodies are turning up in the streets, and the police are either too crooked or burnt out to do anything.
Dive deep into the seedy depths of a city pushed to the brink. In this short story collection from the author of Cold Water Forest and The Omen Tree, you’ll find:
Private Investigators limping along to the next payday; Idealistic cops caught in a world they no longer understand; Average joes trying to make sense of senseless crimes; Serial killers driven by an indescribable need; Victims hell-bent on finding justice at any cost; Creatures beyond your wildest nightmares
Above Suspicion
by Helen Macinnes
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Two married academics are recruited to search for a missing spy in this bestselling espionage thriller that takes readers into the heart of Nazi Germany just before World War II
Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion. In fact, it seems the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures . . .
Miss Riddell’s Cozy A 10 Book Boxset
by P.C. James
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Yorkshire Christmas, a Manchester mobster, and a Galapagos cruise. Will her determined detecting help her set them all to rights?
Boxset: Over 2,300 pages of clues, conundrums, and canny investigating!
Northern England. Miss Pauline Riddell can’t abide injustice. So when she gets tangled up in a suspicious homicide, she sets her sharp mind to unraveling the messy murder. And after unmasking the killer, the eagle-eyed accountant realizes she has a flair for investigation that could change her entire life.
This collection contains all ten volumes in the Miss Riddell series, with adventures spanning from 1953 to 1988. While away the hours immersed in delightfully deft prose, vivid historical details, and humorous-yet-believable plots.
Going Rogue
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn’t shown up.
Stephanie’s worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange for a mysterious coin that a recently murdered man left as collateral for his bail.
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An Impossible Impostor
by Deanna Raybourn
Rating: 4.6 #ad
London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before.
But now a man matching Jonathan’s description and carrying his possessions has arrived at Hathaway Hall with no memory of his identity or where he has been.
Alien Archives
by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every day we are discovering new worlds in far-reaching galaxies which may or may not sustain life as we know it. In Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters, sci-fi Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects his finest short stories and novellas about one of the genre’s most enduring themes.
Spanning fifty years of writing from the Science Fiction Grand Master, this collection of alien encounters features new introductions to all fifteen stories, including the Hugo Award-nominated “Schwartz Between the Galaxies” and HBO adapted “Amanda and the Alien.” In these pages lie tales of a young man venturing into the occupied territory of an alien conquered United States to rescue his brother, three visitors from a very strange alien world arriving on Earth and meeting a tragic fate, and a dangerous life-form from a far-off world finding that suburban California holds some beings that are even more dangerous than it is.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Fortune and Glory
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Stephanie’s beloved Grandma Mazur’s new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair…and the keys to a life-changing fortune.
But as Stephanie and Grandma Mazur search for Jimmy Rosolli’s treasure, they discover that they’re not the only ones on the hunt. Two dangerous enemies from the past stand in their way—along with a new adversary who’s even more formidable: Gabriela Rose, a dark-eyed beauty from Little Havana with a taste for designer clothes. She’s also a soldier of fortune, a gourmet cook, an expert in firearms and mixed martial arts – and someone who’s about to give Stephanie a real run for her money.
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Save The Girls
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Why are all the best CIA spies always men? They aren’t.
Combine the spycraft of Bourne, the toughness of Reacher, and the beauty of a Charlie’s Angel and you have Jamie Austen. America’s beloved heroine. The Jamie Austen Spy Thrillers must be good. They’ve been number one on Amazon in ten different countries.
Jamie’s latest adventure takes her to Belarus. Three hundred girls are missing. She is the only one who can save them. Award winning author, Terry Toler, tells this gripping story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Alien Plague
by Christopher Koehler
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Humanity has united under one government and has started to take to the stars. However, FTL is dangerous, expensive, and still slow. So, a probe is sent out to gather samples and bring them back for analysis. Dr Avery Hutton is one of the scientists assisting in analysis back on Earth. But these samples contain something a bit nastier than anything humanity had encountered before. A pathogen, that if not contained, could kill everything on Earth.
The Cottage
by Lisa Stone
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The gripping new thriller with a difference from internationally bestselling author Lisa Stone
An isolated cottage… After losing her job and boyfriend, Jan Hamlin is in desperate need of a fresh start. So she jumps at the chance to rent a secluded cottage on the edge of Coleshaw Woods.
A tap at the window… Very quickly though, things take a dark turn. At night, Jan hears strange noises, and faint taps at the window. Something, or someone, is out there.
A forest that hides many secrets…
Under the Knife
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Dive into the danger and drama of this classic romantic suspense novel, only from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.
For attorney David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case: malpractice. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth—that she’s being framed. When another patient turns up dead, David starts to believe her. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely. And now David finds himself asking the same questions Kate is desperate to have answered.
Rise of the Grandmaster Boxed Set
by Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Some people just knew how to go out in style.
Tim had never been one of those guys. Tim was always a planner. The plan was to get into college, graduate, and find a well-paying job.
That plan was coming together nicely until he saw a presentation to get paid to playThe Etheric Coast.
At his graduation ceremony. After watching the company’s employee recruitment video, Big Richie’s words had a whole new meaning. He could spend his life going from a cubicle at work to a one-bedroom apartment and back again…
Or he could take a leap of faith by entering a virtual world of unlimited possibilities.
The Vanishing Point
by Elizabeth Brundage
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From the author of the “wrenching and exhilarating” All Things Cease to Appear comes a gripping literary thriller about a man reckoning with the mysterious death of his former roommate (Wall Street Journal).
Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in, and a quiet, compulsive envy takes root, assuring, at least in his own mind, that he will never achieve Rye’s certain success. Both men are fascinated with their beautiful and talented classmate, Magda, whose captivating images of her Polish neighborhood set her apart, and each will come to know her intimately – a woman neither can possess and only one can love.
Hard to Break
by Michael Ledwidge
Rating: 4.2 #ad
THE NEXT INSTALLMENT IN THE PULSE-POUNDING GANNON SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING COAUTHOR OF JAMES PATTERSON’S MICHAEL BENNETT SERIES
Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That’s why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he’s on it with both feet. But as he arrives up in the northern wilds, he discovers other hunters are there. And they’re not looking for grizzly.
Soon Mike finds himself alone and captured on a corporate plane heading southbound for an incredibly lethal encounter that is about to blow his mind before it tries to blow him away.
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Success
by Zipi Kobrinski
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Children with ADHD are no strangers to frustration – and neither are their parents. Raising kids with ADHD is a true struggle, especially when we can’t seem to “fix” the traits that we sometimes see as “broken.”
However, when we praise focus, organization, and academic abilities as the most important skills, we lose sight of equally important things like intelligence, curiosity, and creativity. Our children need to focus on success, not on failure, and these are exactly the qualities that are the blessing of ADHD. When nurtured and encouraged, these children can do more than just manage – they can thrive.