Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knee Deep in Dough
by Catherine Bruns
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes a hilariously homicidal Cookies & Chance mystery!
For once, baker Sally Muccio’s life isn’t a recipe for disaster. She’s happy to be out celebrating her wedding anniversary… that is until she spies her friend Officer Brian Jenkins with a gorgeous blonde who is not his newlywed wife. The woman’s name is Kelsey Sherman, and it turns out she once dated Brian. Which doesn’t make Sal feel any better about the situation, but she decides to mind her own business and enjoy her evening.
Only before the night is over Kelsey is dead from a gunshot wound, and Brian is found standing over her body. To make matters worse, the bullet is confirmed to have come from his own gun. Brian swears he had nothing to do with the murder, and Sal believes him, even if the rest of the town’s convinced that he’s a total crumb…
The Moose Paradox
by Antti Tuomainen
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears – and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park’s equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio, with confusing demands. Why won’t Toy of Finland Ltd sell the new Moose Chute to Henri when he needs it as the park’s main attraction?
Meanwhile, Henri’s relationship with artist Laura has reached breaking point, and, in order to survive this new chaotic world, he must push every calculation to its limits, before it’s too late…
Ignition Point
by Jami Gray
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a questionable, but lucrative delivery job takes an unexpected turn, will Rory survive the collision or crash and burn?
Rory Costas, Premier Transporter, has a plan for her future and the first step includes getting out from under her debt to the Arcane Guild. When an anonymous party offers a lucrative side job with shady details and a hefty paycheck, the professional implications of a successful delivery override her personal reservations.
The seemingly simple contract takes a challenging turn when two mercenary mage crews attempt to seize the package and permanently divert Rory’s delivery.
The Endless Mountain Collection
by Elle E. Kay
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Discover a gripping Christian romantic suspense series filled with mystery and faith. In this collection, follow the journeys of three remarkable young women, introduced in book one: Stella, Claudia, and Sofie.
In Shadowing Stella, Stella navigates life as a pregnant, single daughter of the town preacher, all while sensing someone watching her every move. Her decision to ignore the danger may have deadly consequences if she’s not careful.
In Implicating Claudia, Claudia reunites with Dawson, a childhood friend and neighbor, only to be falsely accused of murder. As the real killer targets her, her stubborn independence may put more than just her own life at risk.
In Chasing Sofie, Sofie refuses to accept that her boyfriend Johan’s death was a suicide. When she starts her own investigation into his death, she uncovers dangerous evidence that leads her into harm’s way.
Silenced
by B.D. Lutz
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A new administration sweeps into power, promising unity, promising a fair and just society. They lied.
As the newly elected administration’s incompetence threatens to derail the aspirations of a powerful shadow government. A series of progressively more deadly events are exploited to chip away at the freedom of the American people.
They understand that to achieve complete control, they must answer one question: How do you control free people?
The answer is simple, and brutally effective: you control the flow of information, making yours the only truth. You silence dissenters, critical thinkers, and opponents of your truth. You use fear to limit their movement and destroy their livelihoods, rendering them dependent on their government. Then you wait… wait for them to willingly trade their freedom for safety.
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives. Short but effective, this book will have you clinging to each page.
Night Shadows
by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.
A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes a job as an au pair in Iceland, desperate to make a new life for herself after the death of her father. But the seemingly perfect family who employs her turns out to have problems of its own and she soon discovers she is running out of people to turn to.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Valued for Murder
by Victoria Tait
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An antiques TV show. A dead celebrity expert. Can a shy amateur sleuth step into the lime-light and expose a murderer?
Dotty Sayers is enjoying her job in a Cotswold auction house. When she’s offered a place on an antiques TV show, she nervously agrees to a makeover and is surprised by the admiring glances she receives. But working at an historic country hotel, she realises the show can’t go on when, at the bottom of the circular staircase, one of the experts is found dead.
Dotty can’t help wondering if the death was accidental or if someone else was involved.
A MARKET FOR MURDER
by REBECCA TOPE
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A bomb. A murder. And an amateur sleuth hot on the trail . . .
The peace of a small English village is shattered when a bomb explodes in the local supermarket. Among the shoppers it narrowly misses are full-time mother and part-time amateur sleuth Karen Slocombe and her four-year-old daughter.
A few days later, Karen witnesses the murder of a stallholder at the nearby farmer’s market. The victim, Peter Grafton, was shot by a crossbow — its owner hidden from sight. Peter was a kindly soul who appeared to have no enemies. Who would want him dead?
Hatchet Island
by Paul Doiron
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The eerie, windswept Hatchet Island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in this thriller from bestselling author Paul Doiron.
A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, and they are shocked by the atmosphere of tension they encounter when they come ashore. The biologists are being threatened and stalked by a mysterious boatman who they suspect is trespassing on the refuge late at night. And now the sanctuary’s enigmatic founder, whose mind has been slowly unraveling, has gone missing.
The Recovery Agent
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela’s latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire, it’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast.
Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Lima. But this job comes with a huge problem attached to it—Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer.
Justice On A Midnight Clear
by Bruce Hammack
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A killer is out for revenge… and she’s the target.
On maternity leave from Agape University, Assistant Chief of Police CJ Harper finds herself conflicted. Will she continue the career she has worked so hard for, or embrace the new dream of full-time mom? The choice is made for her when she comes upon the murder of a local judge. Thrown into the midst of the case, CJ’s not one to leave a job undone. There’s a killer to be found.
When a bullet narrowly misses her, the case takes on a personal dimension… someone wants her dead. She must put the pieces together to identify the link between her and the judge.
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The 32nd edition of Writers of the Future may be the best new book yet! Brand-new adventure through space, time and possibility.
Along the way these new authors will introduce you to fascinating characters such as Nate, a very loyal companion—like most werewolves would be. Keanie has a parasite that lets her morph and so transform into anyone. Liz owns a dinosaur maker, but raw ingredients can be a problem. Anna slaves away in a factory but her magic leaves her unfulfilled. These authors take creative writing to a whole new level!
The answers, the stories, the visions, and the mind-stretching possibilities are all waiting inside.
The Year of the Witching
by Alexis Henderson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut.
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement.
Defy The Stars
by Cathrina Constantine
Rating: 3.8 #ad
Be Wary of the Stars Foretelling Your Destiny. Circus grunt Charmer Fire wrangler
Growing up within the grind of the enchanted Circus Faire, Crew’s unique talents have blossomed. Though, he’s been warned that the King of Hawkswing is determined to eradicate a certain species, and for his own sake Crew must keep his formidable gifts under wraps.
Relations between interspecies caused an imbalance of power and now are strictly forbidden. Dolorans, like Sage and her sister, are being hunted and persecuted because of their intense powers, leaving them no choice but to run, escaping the genocide of their kind.