Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Poisonous Page
by Kitt Crowe
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s summer festival time in Confection, Oregon, and that means a barrage of tourists making cash registers ring at Sweet Fiction Bookshop. But what should be bookseller Lexi’s most lucrative time of year turns disturbing when a member of the chamber of commerce suddenly dies of a heart attack. Not entirely unexpected—considering her family history—but it’s a different story when another chamber member dies just one week later…also, presumably, of natural causes.
Something about this doesn’t read right to Lexi. And it gets more unfathomable when her friend Dash—who dated both women – stands accused of murder!
Red Storm: Complete Series
by James Rosone, Miranda Watson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Deep in Siberia, a plan was hatched…
…to restore Communism to its rightful place. Will Eastern Europe fold as they expect?
A sleeping giant is awake, but it’s not the one the world expects. The first spark hits a powder keg on the Black Sea, but this is only the beginning. Soon, dominos fall across Asia, and China will factor into a different type of war.
When bullets turn to bytes… will the allies be ready?
The Dark Door
by Lisa Unger
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Pip Duke’s life has descended into chaos following the death of her father, a bestselling horror writer. She now hears voices all the time, saying troubling things like: Your father’s friends and family are after his money, or you shouldinherit everything. The voices also say she killed her dad, and the police are after her.
To silence these disturbing thoughts, Pip checks herself into an inpatient therapy center. However, the place is far from calming. She can’t trust the staff, and the voices in her head continue to say terrible things. There are those who want you released—only so they can continue to profit off your father’s name. A different voice says some wish to claim her inheritance by getting her declared insane…
The Wife List
by J.A. Schneider
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Has a group of men conspired to murder each other’s wives – figuring their perfect alibis will save them? That is what Beth Kemp starts to suspect, but is she losing her mind? Her husband says he fears so…
I’ll give this marriage one more try, Beth Kemp thinks. She is a successful crime writer in New York City, who regrets that tension has crept into her relationship with her husband, Brad. He too is a writer who, after early success, finds his career fading.
Brad urges that a move to the country would make them happy again – and safe, especially Beth, to avoid the city’s stress that triggers her severe asthma attacks. Beth wavers, until her close friend is murdered and the friend’s husband has a perfect alibi. She finally accepts that the city with its surging crime has become too hard for her…
The Heretic’s Apprentice
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is not a joyous occasion—he’s come back from his pilgrimage in a coffin. William’s body is accompanied by his young attendant Elave, whose mission is to secure a burial place for his master on the abbey grounds, despite William’s having once been reprimanded for heretical views.
An already difficult task is complicated when Elave drunkenly expresses his own heretical opinions, and capital charges are filed…
Death in the Off-Season
by Francine Mathews
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When Rusty Mason, scion of one of Nantucket’s oldest and wealthiest families, is found dead in a flooded cranberry bog one foggy fall night, thirty-two-year-old detective Merry Folger is faced with her first murder case. Merry is the daughter of the local police chief and granddaughter of his predecessor; her father is a strict boss and Merry feels pressure to go the extra mile to prove her promotion to detective isn’t just nepotism.
But the Mason murder is a demanding first test. Merry’s investigation brings to light all the tensions that plague the tiny community of Nantucket: the decades-old grudges, the skyrocketing real estate that only wealthy weekenders can afford, the resentments of the old Nantucket families who are barely keeping their homes and heritage fishing businesses alive. But Merry knows the island and its politics in a way only a local can.
The Brave New World Collection
by Aldous Huxley
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic about a perfectly engineered society, and his book of essays reflecting on it almost three decades later, in one volume.
Brave New World: Half a millennium from now, no matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole, nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug soma.
Brave New World Revisited: Nearly thirty years after the publication of his groundbreaking novel, Huxley composed this collection of essays comparing the “future” of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Cat Got Your Diamonds
by Julie Chase
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Grandeur and opulence are everything in the famed New Orleans Garden District where pets are family and no bling is too big. Opening Furry Godmother, pet boutique and organic treat bakery, is Lacy Marie Crocker’s dream come true—until the glitter gun used to make her Shih Tzu tutus becomes a murder weapon. And Lacy becomes public enemy #1.
Now Detective Jack Oliver is hounding Lacy, and her Furry Godmother investor wants out before his name is tarnished by association. To make matters worse, a string of jewel heists with suspicious ties to the murder case has New Orleans residents on edge…
Not, Not Guilty
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A killer is set free. Homicide Detective, Cliff Ford is blamed. The killer wins sixteen million dollars in a wrongful conviction lawsuit against the city of Chicago.
There are two more murders. Homicide Detective Cliff Ford thinks he knows who killed the victims. He’s wrong. The reader knows who did it all along. What follows is a breathtaking ride of twists and turns that best-selling and award-winning author, Terry Toler, is known for.
Will Cliff’s wife Julia set him straight or is he headed for another career disaster?
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Killer, Come Back To Me
by Ray Bradbury
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Celebrating Ray Bradbury’s centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories — tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.
Time travelers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master’s less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called “one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written.”
A Storm Is Coming
by James Leonard
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Their first mistake was leaving Storm for dead. Their second was threatening Lena. They won’t get the chance to make a third.
Storm Montgomery survived the war only to be shot in a field back home. When he comes to, his boss is dead, and Lena is in jail.
They say she killed her father, but Storm knows the truth, and he won’t let her hang for a crime she didn’t commit.
But when he tries to help, no one wants to listen. Now he and Lena are on the run, and they’ve only got one chance to set things right.
The Will and the Deed
by Ellis Peters
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A shocking revelation in a diva’s will leads to murder in this chilling whodunit from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.
It’s not surprising that adored British opera star, Antonia Byrne, would want her death to be as dramatic as the roles she performed on the world’s great stages. Even so, the existence of a new will surprises everyone – especially the six loved ones gathered at her deathbed in Vienna.
When the mourners’ private plane is brought down by a blizzard, trapping them together in the Swiss Alps, they decide to unseal Antonia’s final testament rather than wait till they’re back home in England…
The Bullet That Missed
by Richard Osman
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case – their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
The Oracle of Delphi
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two missions, two hearts. Each is trying to save someone, but Perseus can only choose to help one. Where will his heart lead him?
The Demigod: Perseus, son of Zeus is on a mission to save his mortal mother’s life. He needs to behead the gorgon, Medusa, and deliver her head to the evil king of Seriphus or his mother will die. When he seeks the advice of the Oracle of Delphi, he ends up being tricked.
The Princess: Princess Andromeda was once thought to be the successor of the Oracle of Delphi. Now, she sits on the oracle’s throne over the pit of knowledge trying to get an answer for herself. She is to be sacrificed to the sea serpent in order to save her village.
Chased
by Anastasia Wilde
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Gabriel Sanchez has never wanted women at Outlaw Ridge. An expert tracker and operative, all he cares about is the mission. Women mean mates, and then cubs, and suddenly dedicated, focused soldiers turn into soft sappy romantics and Little League coaches.
Not him. No way.
Then Madison Fontaine comes to work at Outlaw Ridge, and suddenly all bets are off. Something inside her calls to his wolf—and no matter how much Sanchez might fight it, he can’t seem to stay away.