Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Terror on Top
by CeeCee James
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Georgie agrees to help her friend Stella O’Neil clean up a house she’s listing, neither of them are prepared for the dead body that tumbles out of a closet. Stella suspects it’s the house’s previous owner but is shocked to see it’s the man who hired her, the bank representative. As Georgie and Stella dig for answers, they find that everyone involved in the prior sale of the house is now dead… and they could be next. But Georgie can’t walk away from this mystery. The secrets that unfold shake her to her core as they involve her fiancé who died years ago. How does this derelict house connect to her life?
The 6:20 Man
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city’s most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine’s tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead.
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
For fans of The Girls with No Names, The Silent Patient, and Girl, Interrupted, the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector blends fact, fiction, and the urban legend of Cropsey in 1970s New York, as mistaken identities lead to a young woman’s imprisonment at Willowbrook State School, the real state-run institution that Geraldo Rivera would later expose for its horrifying abuses.
Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. Yet despite living as near strangers in their Staten Island apartment, Sage is stunned to discover that Alan has kept a shocking secret: Rosemary didn’t die. She was committed to Willowbrook State School and has lingered there until just a few days ago, when she went missing.
Dead by Dawn
by Paul Doiron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Maine game warden Mike Bowditch finds himself in a life-or-death chase in this next thriller in the bestselling series by Edgar Award nominee Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn.
Mike Bowditch is fighting for his life. After being ambushed on a dark winter road, Bowditch crashes his Jeep into a frozen river. Trapped beneath the ice in the middle of nowhere, having lost his gun and any way to signal for help, Mike fights his way to the surface. But surviving the crash is only the first challenge. Whoever set the trap that ran him off the road is still out there, and they’re coming for him.
Forgotten in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change—and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and other such offenders is nowhere to be found.
Then Eve is summoned away to a nearby building site to view more remains—in this case decades old, adorned with gold jewelry and fine clothing—unearthed by recent construction work.
Salt and Bone
by Alyssa Grimley
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Birch Patterson served his country. Now he’s saving his home.
When Birch returns home from the war, he’s shocked to discover how much Brigand’s Gate has changed. The town he loved so much is gone, and in its place is a den of iniquity.
Become a Life Architect
by Odelia Alexandrovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Form your own tailor-made recipe for success with the Life Architecture Method!
What is success? Success is hard to define, because it is different for each of us. We each aspire to achieve our own form of success – in our careers, our relationships, our health, our life. But our experiences and personalities are so varied that success simply cannot be one size fits all.
The Life Architecture Method acknowledges this and focuses on diagnosing and defining each individual person’s own perception of success and forming the rules and conditions that will help them make the right decisions and achieve their personal best.
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.