Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Flirting With Death
by Patricia Grasso
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Zara Romano sees dead people. New England’s best mortician, Zara and two of her older brothers own Romano Funeral Home in Salem, Massachusetts. Zara is a mingling of two nationalities, Irish and Italian. She’s Irish on the outside, complete with red hair, blue eyes and freckles, but she’s Italian on the inside, with a temper to match. The youngest sibling of seven and the only female, Zara loves her brothers but thinks they’re too bossy. Two of her brothers serve on the Salem Police Force, one is police chief and the other a detective.
Zara’s two widowed nanas live next door. She can always rely on a home-cooked meal, unless her nanas are trolling funerals for new boyfriends. Another bossy man in her life is Zara’s ex-boyfriend, Marcello Ponti…
Dead Like You
by Peter James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year’s Eve ball, a woman is attacked as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is assaulted. Both victims’ shoes are taken by the offender . . .
Roy Grace soon realizes that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. Dubbed ‘Shoe Man’, the perpetrator was believed to have attacked five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced?
Tricks and Treachery
by Sherri Stewart
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Was she her sister’s keeper? Leah was all the family Brynn Kingston had left, and she’d made that promise to her mother before she passed away to take care of her little sister. But when she learned Leah was engaged to a man she’d met online—a man who probably didn’t exist at least in the form he presented online—Brynn knew she had to expose the scammer before her sister’s small nest egg was gone. But then she met the scammer face-to-face. Best-laid plans.
Was he his brother’s keeper? Although Ben Fisher had been shunned by his community and his parents, he stayed as close as he dared so he could keep an eye on his family—his ailing father who depended on his younger brother, Samuel, to run the farm, and Sam himself who spent a few afternoons a week helping out in Ben’s office.
The Fourth Shadow
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The year is 1970, and Sister June arrives in New York to investigate reports of a vampire. Teaming up with an old friend, she soon finds herself drawn into the world of the mysterious Count Bastiani. But is Bastiani really what he seems to be, or has the First Order been duped?
As June continues her investigation, she’s forced to confront a shocking crisis of faith. When tragedy strikes, all her certainties begin to fade and she finds herself questioning some of her deepest beliefs. Can she discover the truth about Bastiani, or will he bring her entire world crashing down? And what other sinister force is lurking in the shadows, waiting to make its move?
The Curse of the Shadow God
by Abbey Fox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Forced into an arranged marriage, a sorceress will stop at nothing to regain her freedom.
Violet Elder escapes her wedding night and sets out to find the family she was stolen from as a child. The Society of Crows is already hunting her, and every moment she spends in the Kingdom is one moment closer to death.
When her new husband, Gavin Luna catches her in the City of Scoria, undeniable chemistry blurs the line between friend and foe. He’s her enemy, and after being betrayed by everyone she considers a friend, how can she let down her guard to trust him of all people?
Deep River
by Karl Marlantes
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Born into a farm family, the three Koski siblings – Ilmari, Matti, and Aino – are raised to maintain their grit and resiliency in the face of hardship. This lesson in sisu takes on special meaning when their father is arrested by imperial Russian authorities, never to be seen again. Lured by the prospects of the Homestead Act, Ilmari and Matti set sail for America, while young Aino, feeling betrayed and adrift after her Marxist cell is exposed, follows soon after.
The brothers establish themselves among a logging community in southern Washington, not far from the Columbia River. In this New World, they each find themselves – Ilmari as the family’s spiritual rock; Matti as a fearless logger and entrepreneur; and Aino as a fiercely independent woman and union activist who is willing to make any sacrifice for the cause that sustains her.
No More Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Wedding Planner Aria Scirocco has her life on track after her divorce. She’s engaged to a stable and pragmatic man. Her company is doing well, and her biggest client is getting married this weekend. Nothing can jeopardize all her hard work. Except a snowstorm derails her plans and dumps her ex-husband and their unfinished business in her path.
Hawk Egan wants his ex-wife back. When the storm strands Aria, he jumps at the opportunity to come to her rescue. Getting stuck in a hotel without power is a bonus. As long as the snow continues to fall, he has a shot to make her love him again…
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Josephine’s Guest House Quilt
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Kate Meyr’s new inn is opening, but a resident ghost has already checked in.Second in the East Perry County series from the author of The Forgiving Quilt.
Kate Meyr continues to be charmed by the beauty of Borna, Missouri. Now, after encouragement from her friends, Clark and Ellie, she decides to turn her home into a guest house which East Perry County desperately needs. Wanting to acknowledge Dr. Paulson and his wife, Josephine, whose spirit still haunts the home, she names her new business Josephine’s Guest House. Kate also commissions a quilt to be made by her friend Ruth Ann to hang in the entry hall for guests to sign…
The Heist
by Daniel Silva
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one . . .
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with sixteen thoughtful and gripping spy novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them around the globe and back—from the United States to Europe, Russia to the Middle East. His brilliant creation, Gabriel Allon—art restorer, assassin, spy—has joined the pantheon of great fictional secret agents, including George Smiley, Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, and Simon Templar.
Suppression and Suspicion
by Mel Starr
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Edmund Harkins has gone missing.
Few would confess to liking the man – a wife-beater and distinctly unsavoury character – so when some hungry pigs disinter his corpse in a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief.
However, this intensifies the problem Sir Hugh faces: as bailiff of Bampton it is his duty to discover who has slain Edmund. But if he does, he will earn the enmity of villagers who are pleased the scoundrel is dead, and who knows what repercussions might follow?
The Couple at the Table
by Sophie Hannah
Rating: 3.5 #ad
Honeymooners at a posh resort receive an ominous warning with deadly consequences in the latest gripping, twisty psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah.
Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort…
…until Jane receives a chilling note warning her to “Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours.” At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables is any nearer or farther away than any of the others. It’s almost as if someone has set the scene in order to make the warning note meaningless—but why would anyone do that?
In Name Only
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.6 #ad
No home. No family. No place to hide. For Summer Newcombe, that’s only the beginning.
The night Summer escapes from a burning Padre Island eatery and discovers the arsonist is stalking her, is the same night she meets Fire Captain Gabriel Duran. As much as she’s attracted to Gabe, five years in the Federal Witness Security Program because of her father’s testimony against a mob boss have taught her the importance of being alone and invisible.
No matter how much she yearns for a real home, Summer relinquished that option the night she killed the man who murdered her father. But Gabe breaks down her guard and places both of them in danger.
Black 13
by Adam Hamdy
Rating: 4.1 #ad
An exiled agent out for revenge. A hidden enemy stoking hate. A clandestine war with no rules.
The world is in turmoil and nothing is as it seems. Radical extremists are on the rise, using new threats and new technologies to divide and disrupt. With governments, the military and intelligence agencies being outmanoeuvred at every step, borders are breaking down and the old espionage rules are obsolete. To fight this war a new doctrine is needed and one man will make the difference.
The Alien Years
by Robert Silverberg
Rating: 4.0 #ad
When aliens invade, a generations-long struggle begins against an impenetrable enemy in this sci-fi epic from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.
The Entities have arrived on Earth, fifteen feet tall with impenetrable defenses and inscrutable motives. As conquerors, they have no demands, no explanations, simply harsh consequences should they be challenged. Releasing a plague and plunging the world into a new Dark Age, the Entities seem unbeatable. But, one family at least—the Carmichael clan led by Colonel Anson Carmichael—will never give up the resistance.