Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Forgiving Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Meet widowed Missouri transplant Kate Meyr in the first East Perry County mystery from the author of the Colebridge Community series.
Ann Hazelwood makes her return with The Forgiving Quilt, the first novel in the East Perry County Series. After the death of her husband brings out hurtful secrets, Kate Meyr strikes out to cleave her life from his. She vows to restore the property he left her in Borna, Missouri, and sell it, but the longer Kate stays in town, the harder she finds it to leave. Her life becomes even more embroiled in Borna when she discovers a mysterious quilt in her new home. Haunted by the quilt’s past, Kate is also troubled by several terrifying occurrences.
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.1 #ad
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire a new meaning.
A sixteen-year-old tennis star, fresh from a tournament win Charleston, is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. The body of an abused young boy is dumped in a desolate marsh. A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multimillion-dollar beach home. Meanwhile, in New England, problems with a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital begin to hint at interconnections among the deaths that are as hard to imagine as they are horrible.
Don’t You Dare
by Adam Nicholls
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The case looked easy. Until it changed his life forever.
Morgan Young thought it would be a quick job – an easy paycheck – but when he digs deeper into the facts, he finds he’s bitten off more than he can chew. A man is missing, and the trail is going cold.
Refusing to let down his client, Morgan dives head-first into his work and discovers there’s more than meets the eye. A woman on the brink of insanity knows something, but there’s no getting past her defenses. This leaves only one choice: pursuit.
The Bone Jar
by Candace Robb
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A mystery story about the danger of false miracles and the treachery of true believers, part of the “pleasing medieval series” (Library Journal).
Magda the Riverwoman has called Owen Archer to her island hut in the middle of the River Ouse with a special favor—to guard a jar of human bones. No one in York is greedier than the relic dealers, the insatiable charlatans who sell flesh and bone as miracle cures, but Magda will not sell the remains at any price. Instead, she asks Owen to protect the jar and keep one eye out for the dark figure who’s been watching the island, waiting patiently for the right moment to strike…
Jace Mitchell & Michael Anderle Complete Library
by Jace Mitchell, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Two complete series
Get to know Claire and Riley respectively in the Paranormal University series and the Hand of Justice Series. They are heroes you can cheer for and the action never stops!
Paranormal University: At the University of Paranormal Studies, class is starting.
Claire just received her letter of acceptance despite the fact that she didn’t apply. Why does the university want her?
She swore to protect her kingdom… And he swore to destroy it. Riley is lithe and fast, her tongue every bit as sharp as her sword. She’s a new-age knight pledged to keep her King and countrymen safe.
Storm clouds are circling on the horizon.
The Gallows
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Johnny Price lost his badge. He lost his bride. He lost the future he’d envisioned for himself. After six years, he’s taking it all back.
It started out like any other day. Sheriff Johnny Price was carrying out his duties when he learned the Gallow brothers had escaped from prison. The Gallows were born killers. They have no heart, no scruples, and no conscience. Since it was Johnny who put them in jail, it was Johnny they wanted dead.
His fiancé, Brenda, was just a victim of circumstance. They left her alive, but she was forever changed that night.
Mostly Perilous
by Kimberley Montpetit
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Emma Ambrose purposely stays away from her family’s Texas oil estate, throwing herself into her work as an archeologist in the tombs of Egypt. Ancient mummies are infinitely safer than the family curse that follows the Ambrose Estate heiress. A curse that dooms her to never finding love – because it means certain death for any man who falls in love with her.
At night, Ian Phelps is a man drowning in grief after losing his wife in a tragedy. By day, he’s the county coroner, tagging dead people while mourning with those who have lost loved ones. But meeting Emma Ambrose – under the most unusual circumstances – shows him that life isn’t over yet. Her wild auburn hair, sexy curves, and whip-smart brains may be just what he needs to come alive again.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Recipes for Love and Murder
by Sally Andrew
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first entry in a delicious crime set in rural South Africa – a flavorful blend of The #1 Ladies Detective Agency and Goldie Schulz series, full of humor, romance, and recipes and featuring a charming cast of characters.
Tannie Maria (Tannie meaning Auntie, the respectful Afrikaans address for a woman older than you) is a middle-aged widow who likes to cook – and eat. She shares her culinary love as a recipe columnist for the local paper – until The Gazette decides its readers are hungrier for advice on matters of the heart rather than ideas for lunch and dinner.
Blood of Elves
by Andrzej Sapkowski
Rating: 4.5 #ad
For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But that peace has now come to an end.
Geralt of Rivia, the hunter known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. The one who has the power to change the world for good – or for evil.
As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is pursued for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt’s responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat.
Come Sundown
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born. She never returned, and the Longbows don’t talk about her much. The younger ones, who never met her, quietly presume she’s dead. But she isn’t. She is not far away, part of a new family, one she never chose—and her mind has been shattered…
The Memory Box
by Kathryn Hughes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piece of her heart. However painful, she must return to Cinque Alberi. And lay the past to rest.
After a troubled upbringing, Candice Barnes dreams of a future with the love of her life – but is he the man she believes him to be? When Candice is given the opportunity to travel to Italy with Jenny, she is unaware the trip will open her eyes to the truth she’s been too afraid to face. Could a place of goodbyes help her make a brave new beginning?
The White Cockade
by Mark James Miller
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A fictional character intertwined with real-life historical figures and events creates an engaging, difficult-to-put-down read that will definitely leave you wanting more.” –Sublime Book Review
The first shots of the American Revolution. The battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. The British Major at Lexington shouting, “Disperse, you damned rebels!” The American Colonel at Bunker Hill, calmly saying: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
The White Cockade is the story of the early days of the American Revolution and of the men and women caught up in it: Josiah, who doesn’t want war but can’t escape it. Hugo, once Josiah’s best friend but now his bitter enemy. Mercy, who dreams of marrying Josiah. Walter, eager to fight the British…
Dead Man’s Grip
by Peter James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A university student is killed in a tragic traffic accident while riding their bicycle. When two of the drivers involved are hunted down by a sadistic killer, Grace knows that the third driver, Carly Chase, may be next.
Carly, a solicitor, believes hiding is not an option and heads to New York to speak with the cyclist’s mother. But Grace knows about the mother’s underworld connections and that the family will stop at nothing to take an eye for an eye . . .
The Knocker on Death’s Door
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A news photographer is found dead at the threshold of the church of Saint Eata, his hand extended to the door’s great cast-iron knocker. Surely it is not a coincidence when a second victim is discovered in eerily similar circumstances?
Legend holds that sinners who seize the knocker have their hands burned by the cold iron, but Gerry Bracewell didn’t die of burns, and neither did the second victim. Did they knock on death’s door, or is a more down-to-earth killer at large? Detective Chief Inspector George Felse watched the ceremony to rededicate the door, but little did he know that he would be called back to Mottisham to investigate murder. . . .