Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Millie’s Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery Box Set
by Hope Callaghan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Discover why so many fans love Millie’s Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries with thousands of four and five star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads!
Hope Callaghan novels have no profanity, gore, or sex scenes…Just clean, mysteries the whole family can enjoy!
This 3 Book Box Set with more than 700 pages of fun-filled mysteries! Get ready to set sail with Millie and crew as you solve mysteries onboard the “Siren of the Seas!”
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(Cruise Mysteries)
The Split
by Sharon Bolton
Rating: 4.2 #ad
No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you…
The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer – which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd.
Felicity lives in fear – fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he’s out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won’t give up until he finds her.
A Second Helping of Crazy: Collected Stories
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Second Helping of Crazy
In A Second Helping of Crazy, author John D. Ottini has collected thirteen of his most memorable stories in one volume. Three stories were previously chosen as Finalists in the annual Royal Palm Literary Awards competition, and the rest are a selection of the author’s personal favorites.
This is a new author to me, as I ran across his stories when searching for short story collections. All 13 of these shorts are written well and quite entertaining and creative. I’ll read more of his work.
A Man Called Midnight
by James Leonard
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Midnight is a former slave who’s only just begun to taste freedom. But … the moment he does, everything goes wrong. Outlaws abduct his friend’s sister, and threaten the very liberty he has worked so hard to obtain.
The Red Hand Gang is behind it all. They’re selling women to the Indians. Slaves to be used any way these men see fit. And their leader is Bloody Hands, a Comanche chief who delights in seeing other people squirm. There is nothing Bloody Hands won’t do to get his way, and no one brave enough to stand up to him.
Until now.
Written in Bone
by Simon Beckett
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dr. David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favor to a beleaguered colleague, he’s on the remote Hebridean island of Runa to inspect a grisly discovery. David is shocked by what he finds: a body almost totally incinerated except for the feet and a single hand. The local police are certain it’s an accidental death, but David is not convinced.
After examining the scorched remains, it’s clear to David that this was no accident—it was murder. But as the small, isolated community considers the enormity of David’s findings, a catastrophic storm hits the island. The power goes down, communication with the mainland is cut off, and then the killing begins in earnest . . .
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(The David Hunter Mysteries)
Santa Grint
by Jodi Taylor
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It all begins when the Time Police hold their first Children’s Christmas Party. Their most dangerous mission yet . . .
No good deed ever goes unpunished. Lt Grint succumbs to his softer side and soon lives to regret it. The combination of bubble universes, candy floss, a small boy, a toad named Mr Fluffy, Mount Fanboten, £6.5 million, and a love-struck Officer Lockland are all hard enough to believe, but imagine a situation so dire that only Officer Parrish can save the aforementioned Grint from a lengthy stay in prison. At least, he can – but will he?
Under the Banner of Heaven
by Jon Krakauer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Guardian Dragons of Prospect Falls Collection
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.7 #ad
These Dragon-shifters are the ultimate predators, but their rock-hard abs and endless stamina will offer little defense against the four soulmates waiting to bring them to their knees. With sizzling seductions, brutal betrayals, and a whole lot of growling, things are heating up in Prospect Falls!
As always MS Meadows does not disappoint. Each of these stories were interconnected with the others and had the same enemy to vanquish! She has a gift of story telling that draws the reader right into each story making you wish it would never end! I love reading her books and look forward to her next series of a paranormal romance!
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Catered Halloween
by Isis Crawford
Rating: 4.3 #ad
With the promise of a hefty commission and some valuable word-of-mouth for their catering business, A Little Taste of Heaven, sisters Bernadette and Libby Simmons agree to cater the charity haunted house being staged at the old Peabody School. But when wealthy socialite Amethyst Applegate is found dead in the haunted house, Bernie and Libby wonder if a murderer might also be lurking about Peabody’s gloomy halls…
While almost everyone Amethyst ever met might have a motive for killing her, not everyone had access to the Peabody School. All Bernie and Libby know is if they don’t solve this mystery soon, they might become the next stars in a real-life horror flick…
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(A Mystery With Recipes Mysteries)
Shadows Unveiled
by Amanda Berthault
Rating: 4.4 #ad
FINALIST IN 2022 CHICAGO WRITERS ASSOCIATION’S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS
A dark past will always linger no matter how deep it’s buried. Sometimes you can live with it. Sometimes it tries to kill you.
Heavy metal singer Shadow McKinley has faked his death to leave behind what he considers a torturous life. While disguised under his new identity as Shanley, a traveling pool hustler, he meets Macy, a teenage runaway and fan of his former band. Her plan to find her father in Los Angeles has fallen apart, and together they begin a cross-country road trip to get there.
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(The Shadows Trilogy)
Verity
by Colleen Hoover
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity’s recollection of the night her family was forever altered.
Caravan Courage
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
This time it involves a caravan freight wagon company, J.C. Holdings Co. The business founder, Jed Coburn, has been murdered by a disgruntled former worker named Flint Mattox. And now Jed’s daughter, Ruth, wants to find Mattox and bring him to justice. Evan is out to help the Coburn family after they previously saved the life of his brother Baxter.
Once again, it will take bravery and quick thinking for Dory and Evan to capture the thoroughly evil Mattox. Come ride along and experience first-hand what caravan freight wagons experienced as they helped to settle a frontier and supplied tens of thousands of people in the west.
1979
by Val McDermid
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and 1979 is ripe with possibilities.
But Allie is a woman in what is still a man’s world. Desperate to get away from the “women’s stories” the Glasgow desk keeps assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies. First an international tax fraud, then a potential Scottish terrorist group aiming to cause mayhem ahead of an impending referendum. And then Danny is found murdered in his flat. For Allie, investigative journalism just got personal.
Don’t Call it a Cult
by Sarah Berman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. Through the accounts of central NXIVM figures, Berman uncovers how dozens of women seeking creative coaching and networking opportunities instead were blackmailed, literally branded, near-starved, and enslaved. Don’t Call It a Cult is a riveting account of NXIVM’s rise to power, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing!
Experience the Origin of a Prophet …
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike.
The Buried
by Sharon Bolton
Rating: 4.3 #ad
AN OLD ENEMY IS LAID TO REST . . . AND A NEW CRIME IS DISCOVERED
Florence Lovelady, the most senior serving policewoman in Britain, visits convicted serial killer Larry Glassbrook in prison. Larry is coming to the end of his life but has one last task for Florence: to learn the identity of the remains discovered at children’s home Black Moss Manor. The town Florence escaped narrowly with her life still holds many secrets. Will she finally learn the truth? Or will time run out for her first?