Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Full Blast
by Janet Evanovich, Charlotte Hughes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Turn up the heat and slip into something comfortable…
There’s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave’s spiked the mercury – and everyone’s sex drive. When newspaper owner Jamie Swift runs into millionaire playboy Max Holt, it’s all she can do not to tear his clothes off—and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he’s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, the bakery’s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes, and even Jamie’s dog is dodging passes from an amorous French poodle!
Hack
by Mark Pawlosky
Rating: 4.7 #ad
1st place award in the 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards, Mystery/Suspense category
When a top secret and powerful US surveillance technology is stolen and offered for sale on the black market, an exiled reporter races to expose the theft and untangle the plot—before the story is spiked, and he is silenced for good.
Coming off a successful investigation into a major banking scandal, Newshound reporter Nik Byron arrives in Washington, DC, with high hopes for his career. But a disruptive corporate merger and a vengeful boss quickly dash his plans. Relegated to scut work and the graveyard shift, Nik’s career and emotions are in a tailspin…
Bad Luck and Trouble
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life.
Reacher is the ultimate loner – no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know…
Wicked Dreams
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge’s phone number and the words “Next of Kin.” Ravinia insists she doesn’t recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn’t believe her. He can tell that she’s one of them—the Siren Song women.
Five years after moving away from The Colony, Ravinia has carved out a life as a private investigator whose specialty is helping others locate their missing loved ones. Yet sometimes, it’s better if the missing are never found…
The Charity
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Police Chief Mark Friessen and his wife, social worker Billy Jo McCabe, keep a watchful eye on their small island town in the Pacific Northwest. As the couple comes to grips with the fact that a hub of crime run by the political elite has turned the quiet, sleepy Roche Harbor into a playground for the rich and powerful, a young executive of a major international charity moves to town. When Mark and Billy Jo dig deep into the secrets and lies that seem to follow the man, they uncover a twisted truth, one they may wish they had never found.
Brimstone Bound
by Helen Harper
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A werewolf killer. A paranormal murder. How many times can Emma Bellamy cheat death?
I’m one placement away from becoming a fully fledged London detective. It’s bad enough that my last assignment before I qualify is with Supernatural Squad. But that’s nothing compared to what happens next.
Brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, I wake up twelve hours later in the morgue – and I’m very much alive. I don’t know how or why it happened. I don’t know who killed me. All I know is that they might try again.
Flash Point
by JL Crosswhite
Rating: 4.7 #ad
She was the last contact with a missing man… …He will stop at nothing to protect her. But will the cost be too high?
Directionally-challenged architect Sarah Brockman never thought getting lost on the way to a job site would put her in danger. But she finds it when the man who assists her goes missing. Attempts to help the police thrust her into a series of events that could cost her everything.
Fire Captain Joe Romero has let too many things get in the way of his pursuit of Sarah. And now she is in danger, he’ll stop at nothing to protect her. No matter the price.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
MURDER OF A GENTLEMAN
by Pippa McCathie
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The unusual, romantically attached crime-solving duo return to investigate a ruthless murder!
Charming film writer and director Geraint Denbigh is found lifeless in the garden of his Welsh home. It looks like he fell from a window, but eagle-eyed Detective Chief Inspector Matt Lambert soon finds irregularities in the crime scene. Before long he determines it was murder.
Recently retired, the victim was writing about his eventful life and many of his former colleagues and associates could have had reason to stop him before he spilled the beans on their transgressions.
The Grand Finale
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Berry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when she climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn’t prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window, or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer’s pizza and won his heart! But was there room in her chaotic schedule for a risk-taking inventor with dreams?
She took classes, delivered pizzas, and cared for three eccentric old ladies she rescued from the train station. But Jake thrived on a challenge, and he could be very inventive. Could he teach her there was time to make butterscotch pudding and let herself be loved?
Treasure State
by C.J. Box
Rating: 4.5 #ad
#1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box’s Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man.
Private Investigator Cassie Dewell’s business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who’s disappeared somewhere in the “treasure state”. A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that’s the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie begins to wonder if her client is telling her everything.
The Barracks of the Holocaust: The Complete Series
by Elyse Hoffman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The complete boxset collection of Elyse Hoffman’s The Barracks of the Holocaust Series, including Barrack Five, Barrack Four, Barrack Three, Barrack Two, and Barrack One. Read the full series!
Vilém Rehor is a guard at a concentration camp turned Holocaust memorial. Tasked with guarding the grounds against neo-Nazi attacks, he gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that ghosts are roaming the grounds—the ghosts of Holocaust victims desperate to fulfill their last wishes before moving on…and the ghost of a vicious Nazi determined to keep them trapped at the Camp for all eternity.
The Complication
by Amanda DuBois
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The first in the Camille Delaney Mystery series, The Complication is a fast-paced legal and medical mystery filled with greed, murder, and intrigue.
After her friend Dallas Jackson suffers a fatal complication during routine surgery, Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is determined to find out why. Dallas was like a father to Camille, and she feels she owes it to him and his family to get answers. Knowing she could lose her partnership at her high-profile law firm for undertaking such an investigation, Camille takes a huge risk and starts her own firm, determined to bring Dallas’s killer to justice. She turns for help to her friend Trish Seaholm, a quick-witted chameleonlike private investigator with an uncanny knack for blending into any situation.
The Book of the Dead
by Elizabeth Daly
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The hospital sees nothing to question about the death of the reclusive Mr. Crenshaw, and it’s not as though he had any friends to press the issue. He did, though, have one casual acquaintance, who happens to pick up Mr. Crenshaw’s battered old edition of The Tempest—and happens to pass that book on to Henry Gamadge. Gamadge, of course, is not only an expert in solving pesky problems but also an expert in rare books, and his two sets of expertise combine to uncover the extraordinary puzzle of Mr. Crenshaw, which began in California and ended on the other side of the country, at a chilly New England rendezvous.
Treachery and Redemption Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
This collection of exciting, adventurous mystery and romantic suspense stories will keep you up turning pages. Leave the light on!
TIME WILL TELL; DEADLY PRIDE
ACCUSATIONS; REDEMPTION’S CALL
HATTERAS ISLAND MYSTERY; SHADOWS OF TIME
TRICKS AND TREACHERY; DANGEROUS EXPOSURE
Lethal Resuscitation
by Mairi Chong
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A medical conference becomes a murder scene, in this mystery starring a doctor in rural Scotland by the author of Shooting Pains.
Dr. Cathy Moreland welcomes the chance to stay at a country hotel for an advanced life support course. But the atmosphere among her fellow practitioners seems fraught with tension – and the equipment meant for saving lives is instead used to kill a bad-tempered doctor.
Contamination Box Set
by T.W. Piperbrook
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Best-Selling Post-Apocalyptic Series, Contamination – The complete series Books 0-7, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 1,200 pages of reading!
The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day…