Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Killer Ending
by Karen MacInerney
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Bookseller and recent divorcée Max Sayers has risked her life savings to start a fresh chapter with the purchase of Seaside Cottage Books in cozy Snug Harbor, Maine. But she’s barely opened the shop’s doors when her new storybook life takes a dark turn. The morning after the grand opening–featuring a famous author who shows up at the store on the arm of Max’s ex-husband–Max’s rescue dog Winston finds a dead man on the beach behind the shop. The murder weapon? An antique flatiron doorstop… from Max’s bookstore.
Will Max solve the case before the murderer strikes again?
THE PATIENT MAN
by JOY ELLIS
Rating: 4.5 #ad
SHORTLISTED FOR CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2021. JACKMAN AND EVANS’ MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY IS BACK TO FINISH THINGS OFF.
The domestic bliss of Detective Inspector Rowan Jackman of Fenland Constabulary doesn’t last long. His nemesis, serial killer Alistair Ashcroft, is back in town and ready to tidy up unfinished business.
Ashcroft sends a sinister text to DS Marie Evans. His opening move in what will prove to be a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. Yet for all his taunts, where is he? In a county crawling with police on the lookout for him, Ashcroft is nowhere to be found.
EVERYONE JACKMAN CARES ABOUT IS IN DANGER.
The Black Ascot
by Charles Todd
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.
An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible—but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior at Scotland Yard. Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horse race meet honoring the late King Edward VII. His disappearance began a manhunt that consumed Britain for a decade. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England, giving the Yard a last chance to retrieve its reputation and see justice done. Rutledge is put in charge of a quiet search under cover of a routine review of a cold case.
The Near-Death Experience of Justin Parks
by R.A. Williams
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The past three years haven’t been easy for Justin, causing him to lose faith in a loving, personal God. His fiancée gets killed by a drunk driver a week before their wedding. A year later, after enrolling in the police academy in a misguided effort to avenge his fiancée’s death, he mistakes a Black church pastor for an armed robber, shoots him in the chest, and nearly kills him. In the following months, he struggles with the backlash from the public outrage caused by negative media attention. And just when his life has seemingly returned to normal, a blow to the head sends him to a watery death, only for him to be revived by paramedics a few minutes later.
When Justin awakes from a coma in the hospital, he remembers nothing about the moments leading up to his death or the time between his death and resuscitation. He learns from his doctor that as his traumatic brain injury heals, fragments of memory from the moments before and after his death will eventually return…
Women of the United Federation Marines Trilogy
by Jonathan P. Brazee
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Women of the United Federation Marines is the omnibus version of the three books in the series. Each book follows the career of one of three women who first cross paths while members of the Second Battalion, Fourth Marines before the needs of the service lead them on her own journey of service to the United Federation.
Gladiator
Sniper
Corpsman
The Family Secret
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s never a good thing when a corpse appears when you least expect it…especially in this dark romantic crime thriller.
Just what is the mystery behind Raymond O’Connells disappearance?
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you The Family Secret, an O’Connell family novel, when a body is discovered at the edge of town, rumors, circumstantial evidence and a chance for revenge lead to one family members’s arrest, and an all out effort to take several other O’Connells down as well.
“Wow what drama, what tension, what suspense.” Susan Jordens
The Sword of God
by Mark Dawson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A man called Milton walks into town…
On the run from his own demons, John Milton treks through the Michigan wilderness into the town of Truth. He’s not looking for trouble, but trouble’s looking for him. He finds himself up against a small-town cop who has no idea with whom he is dealing, and no idea how dangerous he is.
But Milton is double crossed and badly injured. Unarmed and alone, he flees into the remote Porcupine Mountains with a posse on his tail. His enemies thought they could hunt him down. That was a mistake and, where Milton is concerned, one mistake is all you get.
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shocking… Left out of her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
Exciting… The only available clues – limited as they are – were stored in a bank safe-deposit box somewhere in the Sunshine State. Shelby is given 90 days to locate the bank, decipher all clues and find her buried inheritance. If she doesn’t find it within the 90-day time frame, she’ll be forced to forfeit it altogether. Riveting…
Losing Jon
by David Parrish
Rating: 4.4 #ad
David Parrish was in disbelief when he learned that nineteen-year-old Jon Bowie’s body had been found hanged from a backstop at the local high school’s baseball field and the death declared a suicide. David had known Jon and his twin brother since they were boys. He had coached them on the baseball field and welcomed them into his home for sleepovers with his own sons. However, when David learned how Jon’s body was found, he felt compelled to find the facts behind this incomprehensible tragedy.
Soon, David would learn of a brutal incident at a local motel where Jon and his brother had been severely beaten by police officers, the charges filed against those officers, and the months of harassment and intimidation Jon and his brother endured.
Cody
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The year is 1880 and Cody Cameron is recovering from a gunshot wound. The sheriff confirms to Cody that the leader of the outlaws responsible for the massacre at the local post office is Otis Bonney.
The infamous outlaw Otis is known for having his wife by his side. Sheila Bonney is crazier than he is. And Sheila is the one who orders the shooting at the post office, killing for the thrill rather than the money.
Cody vows to seek justice for everyone who died that day, and vengeance for Judy, whom he is certain he would ask for her hand in marriage…
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Put Out to Pasture
by Amanda Flower
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s fowl play afoot on the farm
Shiloh Bellamy has saved her family’s farm from financial ruin—but now what? She’s barely scraping by on the farm’s new organic business model and the fall festival she organized to drum up business comes to a screeching halt when the body of a prominent townswoman is discovered underneath a scarecrow in a nearby field. Worst of all, the evidence points to Shiloh’s childhood best friend, Kristy, as the prime suspect.
Between cooking up delicious treats made with her farm’s produce, convincing her cantankerous father to let her do things her own way, and dealing with a newcomer in town who could be serious competition for her customers, Shiloh doesn’t have time to wade into a murder investigation.
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A Case of Conscience
by James Blish
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man, a Jesuit priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He doesn’t feel any genuine conflicts in his belief system—until he is sent to Lithia.
The reptilian inhabitants of this distant world appear to be admirable in every way. Untroubled by greed or lust, they live in peace. But they have no concept of God, no literature, and no art. They rely purely on cold reason. But something darker lies beneath the surface: Do the Lithians pose a hidden threat? The answers that unfold could affect the fate of two worlds. Will Ruiz-Sanchez, a priest driven by his deeply human understanding of good and evil, do the right thing when confronted by a race that is alien to its core?
Kimchi
by Bonnie Turner
Rating: 3.7 #ad
Paul Angers—son of a Korean woman and a Black G.I.—arrives in the U.S. after the Korean conflict with foggy memories of the family he left behind. Adopted by an American couple as a young child, his past haunts him as scenes from his homeland invade his mind at odd times: his birth mother, his sibling, and himself barely old enough to walk with a group of refugees toward a mountain village where they hoped to find safety. Su Kimchi—Paul’s birth name—recalls hunger, danger, and fear were always present.
Eighteen years later, Paul is a paramedic at a Kansas City fire department with a racist Fire Chief who lost a buddy in the war and hates both Koreans and Blacks. Kimchi will entertain you with his knowledge of martial arts—he has a black belt in Judo!—and fire rescues, and will soothe the racist beast that may lurk unbidden inside of you. A gritty story of compassion and warm memories of his Korean mother, Cam, who abandoned him at an orphanage when he was four years old…
Elevated Madness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
The real world is filled with people who live quiet, productive, uneventful lives. These are not the characters you’ll meet in author John D. Ottini’s world of twisted fiction.
Elevated Madness & Other Stories consists of 11 short stories that will amuse, shock, and enlighten you. The twists and turns in each story will keep you guessing until the conclusion, where you’ll be left shaking your head and wondering, “Why didn’t I see that coming?”
Old Samuel
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The day Wildfire Sargent killed outlaw Quick Draw Lynch was the defining moment in his career as a gunslinger. Until … Quick Draw’s sons picked up where their father left off.
Ransom Lynch never stopped wanting revenge, and he thought he got it. A little bullet, a big knife, and Wildfire’s life was turned upside down. But … it wasn’t the physical pain that bothered Wildfire the most, it was the guilt.
An innocent man had died while he got to live. It was Wildfire’s first and only mistake, and one he could never take back. He needed a way out, and he found it on the outskirts of Alaska. The Klondike is a desolate area where there are no laws. Perfect for a man who didn’t want to be found. But somehow, Ransom found him.
Opus X: Fleet of One Complete Series
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Humanity is wounded and reeling. The elite pillars of society launched a brutal betrayal that almost doomed billions.
As humanity struggles to recover, the paranoid central government has risen and adopted policies that plunge the species into more risk than ever.
It’s up to two unlikely heroes to save humanity.
Grab this complete series boxed set and join Cyrus and Kat as they fight to prevent the downfall of humanity!
Scorpion Trail
by Geoffrey Archer
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Alex Crawford has been out of MI5 and the combat zone for twenty years, but now fate has thrust him back into the front line.
Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for so long have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia at the height of the Kosovo War.
His target is the most ruthless killer in the whole war zone: Milan Pravic, codename the Scorpion. And the only eyewitness to the massacre is a twelve-year-old girl whom Pravic will do anything to silence.
Paid For Murder
by Stephanie P McKean
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The Three Notes performers – Doe, Ray, Me and T – carry their performances to a Texas Hill Country dude ranch for a working vacation. They haven’t even given their first performance when the women find a dead man hidden in a cave. Before they can report the murder to the sheriff’s department, they are swept away in a flash flood. Miraculously, they all survive the flood.
They soon discover that love – and murder – are stalking the dude ranch. Will they survive the killer who is determined to hunt them down?
Niergel Chronicles – The Dragon’s Tail
by D. I. Hennessey
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Niergel Chronicles ~ The Dragon’s Tail is the exciting conclusion of the Niergel Chronicles series. It follows the fantastic adventures of Jeff Sutherland, a brilliant young scientist who encounters a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
The urgency of Jeff’s Quest grows increasingly clear as formidable enemies regather strength and a new powerful evil threatens to destroy Jeff’s mission once and for all. Jeff faces risks of unspeakable loss in this journey of tragedy and triumph.
The Dragon’s Tail is book four in the Niergel Chronicles series, the story of Jeff’s soul-stirring pursuit of truth. While uncovering the truth about his lost family, he also discovers the most extraordinary reality of all. One that upends everything he ever believed and is the only defense against the dark forces who now threaten the entire world. Jeff’s most profound discovery is the one he least expects — the proof of God’s creative hand.