Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Finding Moon
by Tony Hillerman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tony Hillerman’s bestselling Navajo mysteries have thrilled millions of readers with their taut, intricate plotting, sensitive, subtle characterizations and lyrical evocations of landscapes and cultures. Now he departs his trademark terrain and applies his talents to a story he has wanted to tell for decades about an ordinary man thrust into total chaos.
Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems.
Cocaine Blues
by Kerry Greenwood
Rating: 4.5 #ad
“Phryne can not get enough of adventure and the reader can not get enough of Phryne.” – Deadly Pleasures
The London season is in full fling at the end of the roaring 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher – she of the green-gray eyes, diamant garters, and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions – is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.
The Long Sword
by Christian Cameron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Pisa, May 1364. Sir William Gold is looking forward to a lucrative career as a hired sword in the endless warring between Italy’s city states. But when a message comes from the Grand Master of the Hospitaliers, William is forced to leave his dreams of fame and fortune behind him.
The Hospitaliers are gathering men for a crusade, and Sir William must join them. Yet before they set out for the holy land, the knights face deadly adversaries much closer to home . . .
Into the Forest
by Christina Henry, Lindy Ryan
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds’ legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the Baba Yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the Baba Yaga may find help, or hindrance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch— and these are her tales.
“Perfect for horror fans who can’t get enough of folklore and fairy-tale retellings that veer in unexpected directions.” — Booklist Starred Review
Ghost Night
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A slasher movie turns all too real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre.
Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is drawn back to South Bimini by a documentary being made about the storied region. Filmmaker Sean O’Hara aches to see how the unsolved crime haunts her . . . and Sean knows more than a little about ghosts.
Touch and Go
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.3 #ad
But Sarah Trent is determined to try. She has just been engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, whose mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. Lucilla’s father died in the war, and his younger brother, Maurice, has been missing since 1918.
Uncle Maurice’s disappearance isn’t the only mystery at the Red House. One night Sarah is awakened by a frightening noise. Something flings itself against her window and she hears the sounds of claws against glass. Then Holme Fallow, the estate where Lucilla was born—and where no one has lived since the war—is burgled. The only clue as to the culprit is a set of muddy footprints.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Berry Little Murder
by Nancy M. Wade
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Meadowood has a new mystery and it’s just in time for the holidays! Strings of miniature sparkling lights adorn tree branches and hang across the entrance to the holiday pavilion. Christmas carolers try to enhance the holiday mood, but it was murder in the air, not friendship and goodwill. What can Meredith Gardner do when suddenly her new friend plus the sheriff collapse after drinking cups of poisoned mulled cider?
Suspicion and fear run rampant in the town of Meadowood as local businesses are burglarized and everyone becomes a suspect. Newly promoted Chief Deputy Sheriff Doug Gardner butts head with his stubborn wife as she inserts herself into his murder investigation, risking her own life.
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The Death Shift
by Peter Elkind
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The true story of a killer nurse whose crimes were hidden by a hospital for years.
It’s 1980, and Genene Jones is working the 3 to 11 PM shift in the pediatric ICU in San Antonio’s county hospital. As the weeks go by, infants under her care begin experiencing unexpected complications—and dying – in alarming numbers, prompting rumors that there is a murderer among the staff. Her eight-hour shift would come to be called “the death shift.” This strange epidemic would continue unabated for more than a year, before Jones is quietly sent off – with a good recommendation – to a rural pediatric clinic. There, eight children under her care mysteriously stopped breathing – and a 15-month-old baby girl died.
The Vilokan Asylum Omnibus Collection
by Theophilus Monroe
Rating: 4.8 #ad
9 Books and over 2000 pages of magic, deranged chaos, and werewolf shenanigans fill this expansive urban fantasy omnibus collection.
Welcome to the Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged. I’m Doctor Cain. I’ll be supervising your treatment plan. Yes, before you ask, I am that Cain. I’ve come a long way since I became the world’s first murderer. I’m now a licensed psychiatrist.
What is it you just asked? You heard that I was cursed? Yes, I’m also the world’s first werewolf…
But don’t worry. I have it under control. It won’t interfere with your progress at Vilokan Asylum.
The Unkindness of Ravens
by M. E. Hilliard
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Small-town librarian Greer Hogan must match wits with a deviously clever serial killer terrorizing the Hudson River Valley . . .
Greer Hogan is a librarian and an avid reader of murder mysteries. She also has a habit of stumbling upon murdered bodies. The first was her husband’s, and the tragic loss led Greer to leave New York behind for a new start in the Village of Raven Hill. But her new home becomes less idyllic when she discovers her best friend sprawled dead on the floor of the library.
Was her friend’s demise related to two other deaths that the police deemed accidental?
Smash and Grab
by Lori Matthews
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Romantic Suspense at its finest!” “Keeps you on the edge of your seat!” “Breathtaking!” Logan suspects Lacy is a spy, but he’s accidently swept up in her kidnapping. Will he live long enough to discover the truth?
Logan Callahan, the CEO of Callahan Security, knows he’s out of his depth. The woman he came to the Bahamas to investigate was kidnapped, and he was taken right along with her. He knew the sexy lady lawyer was trouble. He just had no idea how much. Taken. Again. Lacy Carmichael on the other hand, was not new to the “Kidnap and Ransom” game.
Seasons of Fortitude: The Complete Collection
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Now you can read the entire series in one boxed set. Follow the sisters, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as they go through their trials, tribulations, successes, and triumphs as well as find love along the way.
Highland Spring
Summer’s Reign
Autumn’s Touch
Winter’s Flame
Silent Knight
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.
Spirit of Gettysburg
by S. Elizabeth Calvert
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Epic…Spellbinding…Thrilling Love Story Extraordinaire! Can ghosts die twice? Apparently so!Washington, D.C. psychic to the powerful elites headstrong, vulnerable Maureen McAlister flees a contemporary, shattered life into the ghostly, loving arms of Confederate soldier Major Clayton Fontaine Douglas, her former husband and one-true-soulmate. He is the only man she loves and trusts.
Clayton, an unrepentant Rebel and proud, brave officer in General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, is now a ghost stuck in time in her inherited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania estate. He is furious at God for the loss of his Country and her. He is dying again because of her. Once more she must try to save him, change his fate and rewrite karma. How?