Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Baker’s Rise Mysteries Books 1 to 4
by R. A. Hutchins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A delightfully humorous series of culinary cozy murder mysteries following amateur sleuth Flora Miller, her feathered sidekick, and the quirky residents of Baker’s Rise.
“Here Today, Scone Tomorrow” -> When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
“Pie Comes Before A Fall” -> Ray Dodds, landlord of the Baker’s Rise village pub, the aptly named Bun in The Oven, and self-confessed local Lothario, meets an untimely demise in this second book of the popular cosy mystery series.
“Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fondant”-> Fresh from her latest investigation, Lady of the Manor Flora is looking forward to a quiet Autumn, writing her children’s stories, serving customers in the tearoom, and learning how to make and decorate a traditional Christmas cake in time for the festive season.
Storykeeper
by Daniel A. Smith
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“Smith writes fluidly, and the society he depicts is intriguingly complex.” – Kirkus Reviews
The first recorded Europeans to cross the Mississippi River reached the western shore on June 18, 1541. Hernando De Soto and his army of three hundred and fifty conquistadors spent the next year and a half conquering the nations in the fertile flood plains of eastern Arkansas.Three surviving sixteenth-century journals written during the expedition detailed a complex array of twelve different nations. Each had separate beliefs, languages, and interconnected villages with capital towns comparable in size to European cities of the time…
ODETTE’S SONG
by A. G. Russo
Rating: 4.5 #ad
What’s going to happen to six-year-old Hunter?
His parents are dead, and his grandmother is dying. He’s left with a family legacy of addiction, depression, and suicide. Hunter’s mother, Odette, wanted the husband she left for another man, to raise him, but Nico, alcoholic, depressed, and full of rage, wants no part of the child. He cannot accept that Odette, his wife and songwriting partner, left him.
During their senior year of high school, the beautiful, multiracial Odette, with an incredible voice and stage presence, joined Nico’s band. Five hard years of trying to “make it” finally paid off, but their inexperience cost them their independence, financial stability, and vultures wanting a piece of their songs, the only thing Nico, a talented guitarist, has left.
Up to Snow Good
by Beatrice Fishback
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s almost Christmas, and Daisy McFarland must leave her quaint British home for the holidays. Aunt Juliet, her last living relative, has passed away. As the sole heir, it is Daisy’s responsibility to sell the childhood home she grew up in and liquidate her aunt’s assets in Windswept Pines, North Carolina.
Unexpected surprises face Daisy once she’s back in the States.Encounters with three teaching colleagues – otherwise known as the I.C.E. Queens – whose ill treatment over the years had been a primary reason for her move to England, appear genuinely happy to see her. But is their behavior merely a ruse?
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(A Daisy McFarland Cozy Mysteries)
Darkness Unknown
by Selina A. Fenech
Rating: 4.4 #ad
They lied. Werewolves, vampires, ghosts … they aren’t what you think.
After the death of her mother, Everly goes back to her eerie hometown with a plan to get in and out as quick as possible. Step one, clear out the family home and antique store. Step two, avoid thinking about her past and the boy who broke her heart. Step three, watch him die at the hands of a nightmarish monster. Wait, what? That wasn’t the plan. But it was just a dream, wasn’t it? As the evidence mounts that what she saw was real, a broken heart is the least of her problems. Because now his body is missing, and his soul is trapped in her dreams…
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(Beshadowed Mysteries)
Bred in the Bone
by Christopher Brookmyre
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Glasgow Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has one gangster in the mortuary and another, Glen Fallan, behind bars for allegedly taking him out. But fighting for conviction isn’t going to be easy. This case may be more personal for McLeod than she’s letting on. And Fallan might not even be guilty.
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp has a stake in Fallan’s future, too. The gangland enforcer once moved in the same dangerous shadows that her mysterious father lived and died in. And the strange bond Fallan had with her mother is something no one in Sharp’s family ever dares to discuss.
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(The Jasmine Sharp and Catherine McLeod Mysteries)
Heart of Ice
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Cursed Knight: MacKay de Bar is the only one of the siblings yet to be cursed by the evil witch, Hecuba. In an attempt to stop her, he breaks her magic mirror. When a shard gets embedded into his chest, strange things begin to happen and he realizes he, too, has been cursed after all. Hecuba banishes him to an island with a wicked queen. In this frozen land, MacKay’s curse makes all that is good look evil, and all that is evil look good.
A Cold-Hearted Queen: Lady Eira Koldottir is known as the Snow Queen. She’s been betrayed so many times in her life that her heart has hardened and she has forgotten how to love. She is used to people hating her, and she doesn’t care. But when a stranger comes to her kingdom, everything starts to change.
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(Tangled Tales Mysteries)
Dark Crime
by Christine Feehan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two strangers are bonded by a lust for revenge—and each other—in this Carpathian novella from Christine Feehan’s “erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre” (J. R. Ward).
Blaze McGuire knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback. Until a phone call from a seductive stranger pleads with her to wait. Retribution is in his blood, too. Now, he and Blaze will be united in the blood of the guilty. Tonight, vengeance is theirs.
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(The Dark Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Iced Under
by Barbara Ross
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Inside the mystery package is an enormous black diamond necklace that once belonged to Julia’s great-grandmother and disappeared in the 1920s. Who could have sent it—and why? Julia’s search for clues takes her on a perilous journey through her mother’s troubled family history, from a squabble over the family fortune in “frozen water” to the recent unexplained death of Jacqueline’s long-lost cousin Hugh—who’d been missing and presumed drowned for more than forty years. To protect her mother’s inheritance, Julia must fend off a small army of feuding relatives, solve the mystery surrounding Hugh’s demise, and get back home before the next blizzard buries them all . . .
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(A Maine Clambake Mysteries)
Where Are The Children?
by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has begun to heal—until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows that the nightmare is beginning again…
OFFENBUNKER
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A top secret bunker deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A silo housing a ballistic missile.
Cold War super powers the United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in an intense “arms race” build up of nuclear weapons and face off for control as the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.
The CIA, U.S. military intelligence, spies, double agents, the KGB, Stasi secret police, and assassins engage in a dangerous contest of espionage as Russia wants to spread communism and take control of Europe, and the United States wants to stop them.
What is the personal cost to those who devote their lives to preventing nuclear war?
Winter’s Malice
by Belinda G. Buchanan
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Three bodies in the span of twenty-four hours…
It’s the dead of winter, and in Weeping Rock, South Dakota—a small town crippled by racism, drugs, and violence—Sheriff’s Deputy Liam Matthews has his work cut out for him when he steps in to take over the duties of sheriff from his father, who for far too long has turned a blind eye to certain crimes for what he says is the overall good of the town.
Coming under scrutiny for hiring a Lakota to fill his position as deputy, things quickly go from bad to worse for Liam when the body of retired pro-baseball player Hector Ramirez, who had recently returned home to coach ball at his high school alma mater, is found floating in Crow’s Foot Lake…
The Life Of Grace Devin
by Emmaline Givens
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Following the tragic death of her grandmother, a young woman abandons her life in the city and returns to the family farm. Soon after meeting her handsome neighbor with secrets of his own, her life is upended when decisions from their past begin to crash into each other. Their search uncovers a family history of centuries-old magic and supernatural forces that want to control her, and destroy him.
Realizing they need to return to their past in order to move forward, they hit the road with her cat and his pack, searching for answers that will help keep Grace safe.
If You Tell
by Gregg Olsen
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Following the tragic death of her grandmother, a young woman abandons her life in the city and returns to the family farm. Soon after meeting her handsome neighbor with secrets of his own, her life is upended when decisions from their past begin to crash into each other. Their search uncovers a family history of centuries-old magic and supernatural forces that want to control her, and destroy him.
Realizing they need to return to their past in order to move forward, they hit the road with her cat and his pack, searching for answers that will help keep Grace safe.
My Evil Mother
by Margaret Atwood
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may – or may not – be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.
What Angels Fear
by C. S. Harris
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III’s England. Then the body of a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experiences in the Napoleonic Wars.
Now a fugitive running for his life, Sebastian calls upon his skill as an officer during the war to catch the killer and prove his own innocence. In the process, he accumulates a band of unlikely allies, including the enigmatic beauty Kat Boleyn, who broke Sebastian’s heart years ago.
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(Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries)