Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Bistro at Holiday Bay
by Kathi Daley
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Spend Halloween witch hunting with the gang in quaint and cozy Holiday Bay.
Shelby Morris decided to come to Holiday Bay after receiving a huge inheritance from a woman she’d never met.
The Bistro, which consists of a restaurant, bar, and live music platform, was exactly the sort of project Shelby needed to find her footing in the new life she was still trying to fit into. She knows she’ll need help, so she enlists the help of new chef and frequent guest to The Inn at Holiday Bay, Amy Hogan, as well as parttime waitress and longtime local Nikki Peyton. Together with the staff and regular customers that seemed to have come with the place, Shelby is certain she’ll be able to create something special.
Marmalade and Magic Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ms. Brickellwood, or Mama B to those who know her, is a fixture of Kalhoun County. But is she more than just a venerable town elder?
The strange, sometimes sinister events that gather around her are just coincidences, aren’t they?
Jemma Nox is going to find out and possibly get more answers than she could ever want.
Grab this cozy urban fantasy to join Jemma for a tale of homespun secrets, ancient knowledge, and mysteries as old as these here hills.
After Jemma Nox’s mother left, what was left of her family’s world fell apart. Jemma knew she and her dad needed a change, but really?
Fever Pitch
by Biba Pearce, Without Warrant
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A dead journalist… A ruthless predator… A dark secret that could get them killed.
Kenzie is covering a high society wedding in New York when she learns her investigative reporter friend, Liesl, has been murdered. The last time she spoke to Liesl, Kenzie asked her to look into a cold case – a man who drugged and raped young women.
Did Liesl discover something that got her killed?
The Murderer’s Apprentice
by Ann Granger
Rating: 4.6 #ad
It is March 1870. London is in the grip of fog and ice. But Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ben Ross has more than the weather to worry about when the body of a young woman is found in a dustbin at the back of a Piccadilly restaurant.
Ben must establish who the victim is before he can find out how and why she came to be there. His enquiries lead him first to a bootmaker in Salisbury and then to a landowner in Yorkshire. Meanwhile, Ben’s wife, Lizzie, aided by their eagle-eyed maid, Bessie, is investigating the mystery of a girl who is apparently being kept a prisoner in her own home.
Liberty or Death
by Kate Flora
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Thea Kozak’s sometimes rocky relationship with Maine state police detective Andre Lemieux has flourished. Now, on the day of their wedding, Thea receives awful news: Andre has been taken hostage by a militant militia group. Their terms: release one of their members from jail.
The State of Maine isn’t interested in co-operating. Neither is the prisoner.
Monster Planet
by David Wellington
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Surviving the end of the world was the easy part? It’s twelve years since the dead came back. Ravening, mindless zombies have devoured almost every living thing on the planet. The few, scattered survivors are surviving on canned goods and a refusal to give in and die. They are lead by Ayaan, a former child soldier turned brilliant strategist. She’s twenty-eight years old, in a world where the average life expectancy is twenty-five. Together with her adopted ward Sarah, who has the psychic ability to see the life-force of the undead, she’s gathered a few hundred survivors in Africa and given them safety, something to eat, and the possibility of a future. It would be a lot easier if the zombies weren’t so well organized. Out of the east a dead prince has risen.
The Family Trap
by Lorna Dounaeva
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Prudence welcomed Zoe into her home. Now she’s fighting to survive.
Two simple words shatter Prudence Ahern’s world – “I’m pregnant.”
Her son Nathan is only eighteen when his new girlfriend Zoe drops that little bombshell. Prudence feels she has to support her son and asks Zoe to move in with them.
Right from the start, Prudence knows something isn’t right. When Nathan is around, Zoe is sweet and funny but as soon as it’s just the two of them, she becomes menacing and sullen.
We Were Never Here
by Andrea Bartz
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Emily is having the time of her life – she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she brought back to their room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly similar to last year’s trip, when another backpacker wound up dead. Emily can’t believe it’s happened again—can lightning really strike twice?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead Cat, Run
by Annabelle Lewis
Rating: 4.3 #ad
You’re where you’re meant to be. Run, if you can.
High school senior Jenny Gallagher’s psychic abilities have made life in her small New England town rocky. Her premonitions and déjà vu have given her a reputation, one she’s not happy with. Tragedy is about to strike, however, and oddly, this time, she doesn’t see it coming. Is her gift betraying her?
Not far from Jenny, Wellesley Professor Maximus Dyer also has a gift—a painful and useless one. His ability to see the past has brought him insight into history, but otherwise, he’s never known what to make of it…
Accidental Magic
by Iris Beaglehole
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Welcome to Myrtlewood, a quirky town, steeped in magic, tea, and mystery…
Life’s a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn’s mysterious death.
Despite her cousin’s sinister manoeuvrings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood and the sprawling, dilapidated Thorn Manor. But there’s more to the old house than meets the eye, as Rosemary and Athena soon find out — in a whirlwind of magic, adventure, mystical creatures, and endless cups of tea.
South of Justice
by Joni M Fisher
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Marriage and crime don’t mix. A newlywed’s vows are tested after her husband’s arrest. She searches to discover if he’s her happily ever after or a killer.
South of Justice is the first book in the suspenseful Compass Crimes series. Set in North Carolina, a break in a cold case crime happens during the wedding of Terri Pinehurst, a veterinarian and private pilot, and FBI Agent Blake Clayton. When evidence points to Blake, Terri launches her own investigation, risking it all, to discover the truth.
Dark Rhapsody
by Helaine Mario
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Perfect for fans of Sandra Brown and Iris Johannsen.
In 1945, an Austrian girl discovers a priceless Nazi treasure near a remote alpine lake and sets in motion a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come.
Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O’Shea is preparing her return to the world of music. Instead, a nightmare of a haunting rhapsody and hundreds of roses from a deranged stalker propel her into a world of terror. Forces drive her to revisit the mystery of her mother’s death, her father’s startling disappearance, and a terrible secret from World War II.
The Neglected
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Petal is fed up with her abusive husband Ryder Thomas. When she finally gathers up the courage to leave him, she finds herself working at a place she least expected.
Wild Roses — the best brothel in the West. But Ryder isn’t the only man who likes to mistreat women. The Holloway brothers have killed at least two of Wild Roses’ own. The law won’t help, so they’re taking the law into their own hands by hiring the bounty hunter.
Sully Worth. His job is to track down the criminals and bring them to justice. But the job has one condition – they’re going with him.
Citadel
by Kate Mosse
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Combining the rugged action of Labyrinth with the haunting mystery of Sepulchre, #1 bestselling author Kate Mosse’s eagerly awaited Citadel is a mesmerizing World War II story of daring and courage, in which a group of determined women fighting for the French Resistance risk their lives to save their homeland . . . and protect astonishing secrets buried in time.
France, 1942. In Carcassonne, a colorful historic village nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of courageous women are engaged in a lethal battle. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years before, these members of the resistance—codenamed Citadel—fight to liberate their home from the Nazis.
The Heavens Rise
by Christopher Rice
Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice brilliantly conjures the shadowed terrors of the Louisiana bayou – where three friends confront a deadly, ancient evil rising to the surface – in this intense and atmospheric new supernatural thriller.
It’s been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred…and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction…and who alone knows the source of her very bizarre – and very deadly – abilities: an isolated strip of swampland called Elysium.