Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Death, Dice & Southern Spice
by Sigrid Vansandt
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A DELIGHTFUL COZY MYSTERY FULL OF QUAINT VILLAGES, QUIRKY CHARACTERS, AND MADCAP ADVENTURES BY A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Helen Ryes and Martha Littleword, two Americans living in England, become fast friends and amateur sleuths when a murder lands them in hot water. Killers unfortunately rarely stop at just one murder and the tome-filled libraries, ivy-covered manor homes, and lush countryside of England can be decidedly deadly!
When Martha’s Aunt Tilda runs afoul of a Cuban mafioso, the wig-loving queen of the poker tournament circuit goes on the run with her partner in crime, Jackie ‘Boy’ Divine. Terrified they will end up as divalicious shark bait, Tilda calls in Helen and Martha to find a priceless family heirloom, a sapphire and ruby necklace, she hopes will pay off her gambling debt.
The Complete Benbow Smith Mysteries
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Cloak-and-dagger intrigue featuring an eccentric agent for Britain’s Foreign Office from the author of the “timelessly charming” Miss Silver mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod).
Named after three naval admirals, the enigmatic gentleman spy Benbow Collingwood Horatio Smith detests the sea and loves to indulge his beloved parrot, Ananias, all while protecting the fate of the Western world.
Fool Errant,
Danger Calling,
Walk with Care,
Down Under
To Wake the Giant
by Jeff Shaara
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan’s ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, who wage their own war of conquest across Europe.
Meanwhile, the British stand nearly alone against Hitler, and there is pressure in Washington to transfer America’s powerful fleet of warships from Hawaii to the Atlantic to join the fight against German U-boats that are devastating shipping. But despite deep concerns about weakening the Pacific fleet, no one believes that the main base at Pearl Harbor is under any real threat.
Our Own Devices
by B.D. Lutz
Rating: 4.7 #ad
How much control have we ceded to our devices? Do they influence us? Do they manipulate us to accept the absurd as truth and convince us that dystopia is actually utopia? The stories in our own devices explore those very questions.
I Am Machine: Your status in life rests in the circuitry of a computer unlike any before. Her name is May-Scene, and she is your AI guide to a better life. All you have to do to reach May-Scene level is accept the Social Credit System and let it control every aspect of your life…
Threshold: Our devices stream the world into our homes twenty-four hours a day. Endless news cycles have become the norm. The media mastered the use of fear to capture our attention and employs it with merciless efficiency…
Challenge: When Iris finally wins a Challenge-bid, she’s convinced internet fame will follow. She simply needs to live to enjoy it.
The Leper of Saint Giles
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this mystery in the award-winning series featuring a twelfth-century Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret behind a savage murder.
Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. But as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony’s gates…
The Book of Isle: The Complete Series
by Nancy Springer
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Now in one volume, the entire epic series set in an ancient island sanctuary of gods and magic—from “the finest fantasy writer of this or any decade” (Marion Zimmer Bradley).
Anne McCaffrey has praised Nancy Springer as “someone special in the fantasy field.” Andre Norton agrees that “Ms. Springer’s work is outstanding.” Now the multiple award-winning author’s classic five-part epic fantasy is presented in a single volume. In the grand tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Book of Isle saga draws on Arthurian and Celtic legend to create a wholly original, imaginary world brimming with adventure, romance, evil, mythic quests, and vividly described locales.
Don’t Stop Me: Vic
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The only woman he has ever loved has sworn to hate him forever.
The first book in the McCabe Brothers, a spinoff of the big family romance series The Friessens from New York Times & USA Today bestselling Author Lorhainne Eckhart.
Fifteen years ago, Vic McCabe was headed down a one-way road to destruction with the love of his life. But then the unthinkable happened, a mistake that changed their lives forever.
Successful billionaire contractor Vic McCabe is a man every woman wants, but he gives his heart to no one. However, one day a reporter shows up, asking questions about a past he’s buried, a mistake he made fifteen years ago that could destroy his future and that of the woman he’s tried to forget.
Finding Your True Self
by Dr. Paul Serwinek
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Are you leading the life that you envision for yourself?
Finding Your True Self is an inspiring book that will motivate you to find your identity and uncover your inner being. Paul Serwinek guides you through the path of self discovery and adopting a healthier mindset on how to manage all the aspects of life. Discover new and practical perspectives from a respectable expert. This book will encourage you to reflect and rediscover the missing pieces of your life.
Come to know the true you and find a path to the flourishing life you envision for yourself. You will develop a step-by-step process to uncover the person you were intended to be.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Diva Says Cheesecake!
by Krista Davis
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Old Town’s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue’s homegrown company is thriving, and since her baking dish overfloweth, she wants to reward her employees.
Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn’t the only thing missing from the evening – Tate, Bobbie Sue’s husband, is too, much to her annoyance. Next morning, however, Tate’s dead body is discovered.
Elvenshore: The Complete Series
by Clark Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
From the first meeting of Dwarf and man in the Westwood Forest, the series covers four lands and many races, including; Dwarves, Elves, Druids, Dragons, Valkyrie, Satyr, Minotaur, Trolls, and a whole host of other races. With epic battles and large armies.
“The author is very good at creating believable characters in this collection. Would have rated it 5 stars but the E-books had too many grammatical errors that made you read the sentence twice to figure out what it was saying. There is plenty of action and surprises that otherwise make it an enjoyable read.” by Amazon Customer
Hindsight
by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses — honed during her years in the dark — and keen deductive abilities.
Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related?
The Hunted
by Lisa Childs
Rating: 4.3 #ad
YOU’RE GOING TO PAY
The pressures of fame and an obsessive stalker have driven pop star Olivia Smith to take shelter at Halcyon Hall, an exclusive spa on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Yet from the moment she arrives, there are rumors about women disappearing, and stories about the resort’s grisly past. Then a note arrives from her stalker, proving that nowhere is truly safe . . .
It’s been twenty-five years since Sheriff Deacon Howell discovered his first dead body on these grounds. Back then, Halcyon Hall was an asylum known as Bainesworth Manor. Others have perished here since, including Deacon’s wife…
Wintervention
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The next book in the Jamie Austen series is bone-chilling! Literally.
Jamie’s next CIA mission takes her to the Arctic Circle. Where there’s only one hour of daylight every day and the temperature is fifty below zero. Complicated when she confronts a Tuniit. A giant who stands more than seven feet tall.
This book will have you laughing and crying. In the same chapter! International #1 Best Selling author, Terry Toler, doesn’t disappoint. When you get to the end, this fast-moving page turner will warm your heart.
A Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Box Set
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 5.0 #ad
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new crossover series! The social worker and the cop, an unlikely couple drawn together on a small, secluded Pacific Northwest island where nothing is as it seems. Protecting the innocent comes at a cost, and what seems to be a sleepy, quiet town is anything but. Includes The Trap, Above the Law and The Stranger at the Door
“Adventure and mystery always happens to Billy Jo. After taking a late night call her nightmare becomes reality. Can Mark save the day and solve the mystery.” S. Jordans, Goodreads
An Almost Perfect Murder
by Gary C. King
Rating: 3.6 #ad
A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story by the author of Stolen in the Night.
A Woman with A Passion For Power . . .
Kathy Marie Augustine was not out to make friends. In politics, she rose to the top by playing hardball—and pushing her way through the old boy’s network of the Nevada legislature, rising to the rank of State Controller. When she died, only a few people shed tears—including the man who killed her.
A Killer with A Foolproof Plan . . .
Crystal Creek Boxed Set
by Laura Haley-McNeil
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Welcome to Crystal Creek where the women are strong, and powerful men will do anything to protect the women they love.
Steeling Her Heart: She agrees to enter a loveless marriage, but the man who stole her heart will do anything to stop her. The holidays are over, and aristocrat Anna Whitloch must leave Crystal Creek and return to Eastern Europe. She made a promise, a promise that will save her mother’s estate.
Risking Her Heart: A novel of suspense, revenge and a love so deep that it can only be released through forgiveness.
Defending Her Heart: He longs for peace. She stirs things up. When the past comes calling, will he risk it all to come to her rescue?