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.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in Georgetown
by Margaret Truman
Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the corpse of a young woman is found floating down Washington’s C&O Canal, everyone is shocked to learn the victim is none other than Valerie Frolich—a senator’s daughter, Georgetown graduate, and a rising star in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism.
Washington Post reporter Joe Potamos is good at unearthing the skeletons in the nation’s capital, so when he’s assigned the Frolich story, he immediately senses this case is rife with secrets. As he digs further to uncover the truth about Valerie’s death, it soon becomes apparent someone wanted the young, beautiful reporter dead.
Skin Flicks
by Duncan Ralston
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Extreme Horror Collection From the Twisted Mind That Brought You WOOM.
In Skin, former Golden Era-porn star Larry Walker gets a shot at the role of a lifetime… only to discover it may be his final role ever. The dark side of the porn industry has bred a monster with a penchant for recreating “classic” scenes. And Larry isn’t the first actor The Doll has kidnapped to make his twisted “film.”
Old friends reconnect over a dead body and a peculiar infection in “Bait,” one that makes Alexa crave sex with strangers which usually ends fatally for her partners. The trouble is, Brook’s had a secret crush on Alexa since grade school, but will she be willing to do anything to help her friend?
Where Are the Children Now?
by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction. In that story, a young California mother named Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children. Though released on a technicality, she was abandoned by her husband and became such a pariah in the media that she was forced to move across the country to Cape Cod, change her identity and appearance, and start a new life. Years later her two children from a second marriage, Mike and Melissa, would go missing, and Nancy yet again became the prime suspect – but this time, Nancy was able to confront the secrets buried in her past and rescue her kids from a dangerous predator.
Fracture
by Elyse Hoffman
Rating: 3.9 #ad
A heart-wrenching WW2 story of forbidden love and torn allegiances.
Franz Keidel is a monstrous SS soldier: loyal, hateful, and devoted to Hitler. With a cold heart, he hunts down his Führer’s enemies, but one fateful mission will fracture his shield of ice.
While hunting for Jews, Franz stumbles across a familiar face: Amos Auman, his childhood friend. Amos is the only source of joy in Franz’s life, but he is also a Jew. Unable to bring himself to kill his friend, Franz vows to protect Amos from his fellow Nazis.
Mr. Mercedes
by Stephen King
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes’s wheels…
Brady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he’s going big, with an attack that would take down thousands – unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield’s diabolical plans.
The Crimson Maple
by C.R. Eaton
Rating: 5.0 #ad
At the heart of the forest lies a dark secret…
Kelvin Forest provides a place of serenity for historian Hugo and his friend Den, a strange-looking boy with superhuman strength. Hugo spends his days studying ancient texts in the nearby town of Harten while Den keeps busy doing what boys do in a place where people won’t make fun of him.
Their peace is interrupted when a bounty hunter named Grill stops by and inquires about a wanted man believed to be in the area. At about the same time, pets start disappearing from town, and they agree to team up to investigate the forest.
Citadel
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dakota Thorne was happy to get home to his wife. After six years building the Transcontinental Railroad, all he wanted was a bed, a home, and a woman to love.
Until the night Crawford Lory had it all ripped away.
Dakota almost lost his life. Instead, he just lost the life he’d dreamed of.
Now, a year later, it looks like Crawford may have been acting on someone else’s orders. His boss tells him it was Chen Hai, Chinatown’s most infamous opium dealer. Chen says it’s his boss, Pat Buzzard, a railroad tycoon turned gambling hall magnate.