Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Empty Promises and Crowded Caskets
by Ana Bisset
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A stolen story. A secret source. An extra body. Can our psychic sleuth find the murderer before she’s the next victim? Libby Foster is an investigative journalist. After her dead-beat boyfriend steals her latest scoop, she quits her job at the Boston Gazette and moves back home to Black Ridge Cove, Maine.
Her day only gets worse when a ghost runs right through her, she witnesses an explosion that may have been caused by her mystical BFFs, and there are one too many bodies in the casket at the memorial for a founding family member. Nobody seems to know how ‘that guy’ got there, only that he has been murdered.
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(A Libby Foster Cozy Mysteries)
You Belong To Me
by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the lonely and insecure, she has no idea that she is exposing herself—and those closest to her—to the very terror that she hopes to warn others against.
Susan sets out to determine who is responsible for an attempt on the life of a woman who called in to the show offering information on the mysterious disappearance from a cruise ship, years before, of Regina Clausen, a wealthy investment advisor.
Nanostealth: A Three-Book Boxed Set
by Vikki Kestell
Rating: 5.0 #ad
An amiable scientist, a ruthless drug dealer, a vulnerable boy, a poisonous sister, and a guy with a dark past. Throw in an unemployed woman who knows too much, and you have one of the most unusual and intriguing books you will ever read. Own the first three full-length novels in the award-winning series, Nanostealth, available for the first time in a single eBook volume.
Book 1: Stealthy Steps
Book 2: Stealth Power
Book 3: Stealth Retribution
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(Nanostealth Mysteries)
Survivor In Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Lieutenant Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city – not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal – but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night vision to find their way through the cozy middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is dealing with pros. The only mistake they made was to overlook the nine-year-old girl cowering in the dark in the kitchen…
The Undoing
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended.
Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them.
Love and Other Unknown Variables
by Shannon Lee Alexander
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he’ll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover solutions to the universe’s greatest unanswered questions. He’s that smart. But Charlie’s future blurs the moment he reaches out to touch the tattoo on a beautiful girl’s neck. The future has never seemed very kind to Charlotte Finch, so she’s counting on the present. She’s not impressed by the strange boy at the donut shop – until she learns he’s a student at Brighton where her sister has just taken a job as the English teacher. With her encouragement, Charlie orchestrates the most effective prank campaign in Brighton history.
Night Terrors Vol. 24
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Turn page after page of relentless terror…
An old piece of pottery holds an ancient evil within, until a man and his daughter unwittingly release it into the world. A private chauffeur picks up a very strange passenger, who reveals something terrifying lurking along the dark night roads, just out of sight. And justice hunts down a terrified man, when he discovers his ancestor may have committed a gruesome crime…
Scare Street is proud to present fourteen diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly page unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche…
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Colebridge Quilted Christmas
by Ann Hazelwood
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The holiday spirit brings healing and hope to flower shop owner Anne Brown and her quilting friends – just when they need it the most.
Enjoy Christmas in Colebridge in the final installment of Ann Hazelwood’s Colebridge Community Series. Main street is busy with the Mistletoe Market and the quilt show in the depot. Folks in Colebridge help one another, especially at Christmas. Through love and loss, the townspeople are sewn together. The layers of their lives, like quilts, blend as one through appreciation of the community that binds them; not just in Colebridge, but in their hearts.
Mirror Mirror
by Allison Brennan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Everyone has a breaking point …
Jackie Regan broke the cycle of violence as a young teen when she turned her abusive father over to the police. Now, a detective in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, Jackie has dedicated her life to helping those who can’t help themselves.
The Becker family is just one in a long-line of cases Jackie is working. She fears that history will repeat itself, and sees herself in their young daughter who is witness to her parents constant fighting.
Before She Was Helen
by Caroline B. Cooney
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From the critically acclaimed, international bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney comes a domestic thriller perfect for fans of mystery books by Laura Lippman and Alice Feeney.
Her life didn’t turn out the way she expected—so she made herself a new one
When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn’t there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her cell phone and makes the irrevocable error of forwarding it. As the picture swirls over the internet, Clemmie tries desperately to keep a grip on her own personal network of secrets. Can fifty years of careful hiding under names not her own be ruined by one careless picture?
SCI-FI Boxed Set
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.5 #ad
This meticulously edited and formatted SF collection, jam-packed with the dystopian worlds, intergalactic action-adventures, and the greatest Sci-Fi classics
More than I can read in a year, for a pittance too. Lots of classic sci-fi, something for every taste–a lot of titles one might never read otherwise. I use my tablet to read when I’m traveling and want to take a break from the real, awful world. Stories are well chosen.
Second Watch
by J. A. Jance
Rating: 4.6 #ad
With Second Watch, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance delivers another thought-provoking novel of suspense starring Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont.
Second Watch shows Beaumont taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work, the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he’s ever faced.
Death at Whitewater Church
by Andrea Carter
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A missing groom – a deconsecrated church – a hidden crypt – a skeleton wrapped in a blanket
When a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his wedding day six years previously. But the postmortem reveals otherwise.
Solicitor Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe is acting for the owners of the church. She is reluctant to get involved, but when Conor’s brother dies in strange circumstances shortly after coming to see her, she finds herself drawn into the mystery. Whose is the skeleton in the crypt and how did it get there? Is Conor Devitt still alive, and if so, is there a link? What happened on the morning of his wedding to make him disappear?
The Boy From Block 66
by Limor Regev
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66.
January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen more than his share of tragedy.
Moshe knows only one thing about Buchenwald. Everyone knows it.
Secrets of Skin and Stone
by Wendy Sparrow
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Something is wrong in Hidden Creek. The sleepy Alabama town is more haunted than any place fiend hunter Grisham Caso has ever seen. Unearthed graves, curse bags, and spilled blood all point to an evil that could destroy his gargoyle birthright. The town isn’t safe for anyone, and everyone says fiery Piper Devon knows why.
Piper wants to leave Hidden Creek behind. She’s had enough of secrets—they hide in the shadows of her room and tell her terrible things are coming. Too-charming city boy Grisham might be her only chance to save herself.
Fury of Frustration
by Coreene Callahan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ambition can be deadly…
Born of a powerful god, but exiled on earth, dragon-warrior Kruger conceals the truth of his origins from the world. Forced to live a lie, he proves his worth by becoming a tycoon in a powerful business empire. But when a beautiful woman with ambitions of her own gets in his way, he must accept what he cannot change, or eliminate the threat once and for all.
Haunted by ghosts, Ferguson McGilvery needs out. Out from under her step-father’s thumb. Out of the toxic whirlwind her step-brothers create. Out of the country, far away from the dysfunction that has overtaken her life. When a surprise inheritance sends her to the Scottish Highlands, she clashes with Kruger, a man so infuriating she’ll do anything to foil his attempts to make her leave.