Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Pineapple Cozy Mystery
by Amy Vansant
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Someone is killing cozy mystery detectives!
Charlotte’s friend Tilly dies and leaves her a cryptic message about the Cozy Mystery Killer—an assassin who has a grudge against amateur detectives. She’s left more clues hidden inside tea cosies stashed all over Pineapple Port, which is good, because someone has robbed her home, leaving Charlotte with few leads.
While Charlotte and Declan follow the clues to find the killer, Mariska and Darla work to surprise them with upgrades to the couple’s new detective agency office.
Robert B. Parker’s Payback
by Mike Lupica
Rating: 4.4 #ad
PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike’s restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over – surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet – and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals.
At the same time, Sunny’s cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she’s telling police. As the uncooperative young woman becomes outright hostile, Sunny runs up against a wall that she’s only more determined to scale.
Signed to Death
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A murder mystery falling at her feet is just the first shock to electrify antique shop owner Zoey Thunderbird.
Zoey is seriously DWM – Done With Men – but her heart forgets at every mention of junk sculptor Dave Durham. When a claspy-grabby stranger comes to town with outrageous stories and “flutterings” for Dave, Zoey’s best friend and sole employee at Treasure Trove takes the stranger’s side.
Zoey sets out to solve the mystery of the man who was signed to death and gets accidentally kidnapped in a wardrobe. Instead of rescuing her, police officers arrest her. She is unknowingly standing on a fortune’s worth of cocaine hidden in the bottom of the wardrobe.
A Wanted Man
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death – the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen.
All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth.
The A, B, C’s of Witchery
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A young witch, Gillette Hart, uses her talents and her former police experience to hunt down serial killers. A job she became an expert at after she married Sonny Hart, The Carnival Killer.
Teaming up with her teenage brother, Ardal, her dog Pete and the rest of her unique family, Gillette is assigned cases that take her across many state lines. With her magical powers becoming stronger every day, Gillette Hart and her brother Ardal are forces to be reckoned with.
The omnibus contains – Book 5: E is for Evil. Book 6: F is for Fire. Book 7: G is for Grimoire. Book 8: H is for Huntress. Book 9: I is for Invoking. Book 10: J is for Jinxed.
The Stranger at the Door
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
She knocked on his door. He never should have answered. As newly appointed chief of police, Mark Friessen is settling into his small-town role when he uncovers the twisted tale of a woman forced to marry the man who killed her family.
When the woman goes looking for help, knocking on his door, Mark and Billy Jo are thrust into a web of lies that tests their own complex relationship, as they discover secrets in the couple’s shadowy past that could drive a wedge between them for good.
Seed of Evil
by Greig Beck
Rating: 4.2 #ad
There’s something growing deep in the old Angel Mine – Something the Native Americans warned us about – And now it’s rising again.
Mitch Taylor, ex-Special Forces medic, is seeking a quiet life in the town of Eldon. Tragedy has dogged his life, and he sees the small friendly place as a second chance. But buried deep below the friendly smiles and quaint painted houses is an old abandoned mine that holds a legend of an ancient and terrible god.
Island of Gold
by Amy Maroney
Rating: 4.3 #ad
- A noble French falconer. A spirited merchant’s daughter. And a fateful decision that changes their destiny forever…
When Cédric is recruited by the Knights Hospitaller to the Greek island of Rhodes, his wife Sophie jumps at the chance to improve their fortunes. After a harrowing journey to Rhodes, Cédric plunges into the world of the knights—while Sophie is tempted by the endless riches that flow into the bustling harbor. But their dazzling new home has a dark side.
Slaves toil endlessly to fortify the city walls, and rumors of a coming attack by the Ottoman Turks swirl in the streets. Desperate to gain favor with the knights and secure his position, Cédric navigates a treacherous web of shadowy alliances.
Twisted
by Blair Babylon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From USA Today Bestselling Author Blair Babylon, a thrilling romantic suspense tale about a twisted billionaire with a shady past.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime, and for Tristan “Twist” King, the time has come to commit his.
Tristan is twenty-six years old, six-feet-four, wealthy, frighteningly good at day-trading stocks, and lives on a yacht in Monaco. The Prince of Monaco is his buddy from boarding school, and his other friends are billionaires, politicians, CEOs, actors, and rock stars. He dates heiresses, minor princesses, models, and Fortune 50 VPs. He has it all.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Deadly Neighbors
by Cynthia Hickey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Seems everyone has a dream and not enough funds. Someone is determined to kill for that dream. Will River Valley’s cast of colorful characters live to see another day? Can Marsha find out who the thief is before she becomes one of the sleep walkers?
When Marsha Calloway’s daughter is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, Marsha is determined to find the real culprit.
She enlists the help of her Cadillac-driving mama, the man who ditched Marsha at her high-school graduation but kept her heart, and a bumbling police officer. Folks around River Valley are having things disappear while they are sleeping with their eyes open.
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(A River Valley Mysteries)
Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors
by James Lovegrove
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A beautifully presented sinister seasonal mystery from the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon.
- The First Terror. At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch’s curse from over two hundred years earlier?
- The Second Terror. A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts?
- The Third Terror. A body is discovered in the dark woods near a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal, as the evidence suggests?
Chronicles of Winland Underwood Starter Pack
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Winland Underwood has been running and hiding most of her life. Today is the day she will stop and stand her ground.
Can she protect the magical refugees while searching for her mother? What other challenges await the Fixer’s daughter?
Grab the first two books of the Chronicles of Winland Underwood series today to find out!
An ancient mystery starts to unravel threatening their new town, and Winland must find it in herself to stay and fight it out.
Don’t Look Back
by Ben Cheetham
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head. Jacob was facedown on the tiled floor, arms outstretched to either side with blood pooling around his wrists. There was a faintly metallic butcher’s shop smell in the air…
After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for free in a breathtakingly beautiful mansion on the Cornish Lizard Peninsula. There’s just one catch – the house is supposedly haunted.
The Tome of Syyx
by Stavros Saristavros
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ancient evils stir. Deals must be brokered. But who can be trusted?
On the fringes of civilization, the town of Sanctuary embarks on a mission to legitimize its existence and that of its half-breed inhabitants.
Tasked with helping secure the future of the town, four young adventurers soon discover that armies of orcs and hobgoblins are far from the only threats to peace on the frontier. Dragons are rumored to once again fly, and an imprisoned god returns to plague the world.
What hopes do they have in the face of such foes?
Perfect Storm 4
by Bobby Akart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Perfect Storm arrived. The power grid was destroyed. Society collapsed and anarchy rose. Can courage and the love of family ensure survival?
International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America’s favorite storytellers, delivers up-all-night thrillers to over a million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.
The Perfect Storm, a natural disaster caused by the sun, resulted in the collapse of America’s vulnerable power grid. When two successive blasts from the sun slammed into each other, they forged a Perfect Storm so intense that our planet’s magnetic field was no match for its fury.
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(Perfect Storm Mysteries)
Pastime
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker’s electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction–a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father’s rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother’s sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to.
This time, it’s more than a routine search for a missing person–Spenser must search his own soul…
Long Distance Hero
by Jo Grafford
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When a cowboy finally meets THE ONE, and his feelings are immediately put to the test by a long-distance relationship…
Farmer and agricultural pilot Nash Wilder has waited a long time for someone like Kenzie Malone to come along. Her fun and outspoken personality is the perfect fit for his outrageous brand of humor. Never before has anyone been able to dish it back the way she can. It’s way too bad she’s in the middle of a job transfer back to New York.
He asks her to be his long-distance girlfriend, not realizing her ex is already scheming to win her back. Yeah, Nash understands the All’s Fair in Love and War rule, but this guy is pushing some pretty big boundaries, including the legal ones.