Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Flicker of a Doubt
by Daryl Wood Gerber
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Fairies are trending hard, especially when it comes to fairy garden décor in Walmart and Target and on Amazon. The latest installment in the nationally bestselling Daryl Wood Gerber’s Fairy Garden mysteries is a perfect read for Laura Childs readers and all fans of whimsy and charm.
With a theater foundation tea and an art show planned at Violet Vickers’s estate, Courtney is hired to create charming fairy gardens for the event. It’s not so charming, however, when her best friend Meaghan’s ex-boyfriend turns out to be Violet’s latest artistic protégé. Even worse, not long after Meaghan locks horns with him, his body is found in her yard, bludgeoned with an objet d’murder.
Every Vow You Break
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Abigail Baskin never thought she would fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He’s a good guy, stable, level-headed, kind—a refreshing change from her previous relationships.
But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on her bachelorette weekend. She puts the incident – and the sexy guy who wouldn’t give her his real name—out of her mind, and now believes she wants to be with Bruce for the rest of her life. Their honeymoon on a luxurious, secluded island will be the beginning of their blissful lives together.
Blackout
by Lisa Phillips
Rating: 4.6 #ad
BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROES
A missing woman. Cut loose from the CIA after a devastating injury, Ember Hendryx only wants one thing—to live long enough to find her missing sister. The clock is running down. She’s got the skills to do this, but she’ll need the one thing she can’t do for herself if she’s going to succeed. With no leads and little idea what her sister was into, this just might take everything she’s got. And give her a future she can’t even dream of.
An EMT with a choice to make. Trey Banning got sidelined after he was stabbed a few weeks ago. Now he wants back on the ambulance so he can be who he is: a hero just like his dad. Except all his attempts to get his life on track again get him is social media attention he doesn’t want…
Thunder Point
by Jack Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
1945 The day before Hitler commits suicide, he arranges for Nazi leader Martin Bormann to flee to South America in a German U-boat.
1992 Terrorist Sean Dillon is saved from a Yugoslavian firing squad—if he agrees to help the British government retrieve the long-lost documents of Martin Bormann. The wreck of Bormann’s U-boat has been discovered in the Caribbean, along with a secret list of Nazi sympathizers. The names include high-level citizens from the U.S. and Great Britain—and may implicate the Duke of Windsor himself.
Love’s Beating Heart
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.4 #ad
After Cat Majors’ boyfriend, Ty, leaves her beaten and bloody on a Texas Hill Country road, Cat hides in the back seat of a pickup truck and is rescued by a Christian family. Although the Creekmores’ beliefs and behavior are as foreign to Cat as if she’d been dropped on another planet, she feels safe with them.
But Ty finds and kidnaps Cat, beating her viciously and leaving her for dead. Sky and family friend, Jesse, save her. Believing herself in love with Sky, Cat is determined to win him away from his wife. Meanwhile, Cat’s younger sister, Dena, whom she has always protected, runs away with her best friend, Natasha, who is pregnant and being abused. Natasha’s stepfather insists on an abortion and threatens to cut the baby out himself if she refuses.
The Latina President
by Joe Rothstein
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What happens when a fun-loving, charismatic, reform-minded Mexican-American billionairess becomes president of the United States and strikes fear in the pocketbooks of a cabal of the rich and powerful? Conspiracy. Impeachment. Murder. Assassination. It’s all here. The world knows President Tennyson as “Tenny.” And once you meet her, you will never forget her.
Kirkus Reviews says she’s “An enthralling protagonist at the heart of a gripping tale.” Another reviewer writes, “If Grisham wrote political thrillers, they’d feel like this!” “A great escapist gem!”
Run
by Rich Restucci
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The dead have risen, and they are hungry.
Slow and plodding, they are Legion. The undead hunt the living. Stop and they will catch you. Hide and they will find you. If you have a heartbeat you do the only thing you can: You run.
Survivors escape to an island stronghold: A cop and his daughter, a computer nerd, a garbage man with a piece of rebar, and an escapee from a mental hospital with a life-saving secret. After reaching Alcatraz, the ever expanding group of survivors realize that the infected are not the only threat.
The StorySelling Method
by Philipp Humm
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Master The Art Of Storytelling To Build Trust, Stand Out, And Boost Sales
Do you struggle to connect with your customers on a personal level? Do you want to stand out in a very competitive market? Or do you want to accelerate your sales career? The StorySelling Method will teach you how to tell powerful stories that actually work in sales! No fluff, no BS… just straightforward and effective storytelling tactics that will transform your sales game. The techniques you’re about to learn are the same ones that have helped thousands of professionals at top companies like Google, Oracle, and Visa win more business.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Claws for Alarm
by Cate Conte
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Claws for Alarm, the fifth book in Cate Conte’s delightful and cat-filled series, it’s the heart of the busy season, and JJ’s House of Purrs is booming—until a killer is let off the leash.
Maddie James has finally given in to her friend Katrina’s pleas to open up her cat cafe to more than ten felines: they’re now up to fifteen purring friends. In fact, JJ’s House of Purrs is making such a splash that she’s getting national attention. The Shoreline Animal Rescue League is quite interested in the cafe, and so Maddie accepts a request to meet with Jillian Allen, the executive director.
The Children of Men
by P. D. James
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England.
Broken Rhodes
by Kimber Silver
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James’ life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town’s first homicide in twenty years wasn’t enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes’ bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm’s way.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
by Ashley Winstead
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Six friends.
One college reunion.
One unsolved murder.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent. Not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather Shelby’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year…
Margaret Truman Thrillers Collection
by Margaret Truman
Rating: 4.2 #ad
These three political thrillers by the acclaimed author – and daughter of President Harry Truman – offer an insider’s look into the dangerous shadows of D.C.
Murder in the Supreme Court
Murder on Embassy Road
Murder at the FBI
All That Remains
by Sue Black
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards
A CrimeReads Best True Crime Book of the Month
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, Kathy Reichs, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.
Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was to apprentice in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives. It is a treat for CSI junkies, murder mystery and thriller readers, and anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all.
Spirituality Why Give a ****
by Oagis Revilo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What it means to be spiritual but not religious is in need of a clarifying facelift. In this non-narrative and non-bs deep-dive, spirituality aims to connect and reconcile with its debunking adversary science.
So why care? What’s in it for you?
Let this book tell you why developing a spiritual shield to deflect ego-seeking projectiles is a no-brainer when it comes to personal growth and pivoting gracefully through life’s twists and turns.