Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Cinnamon Roll Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When bakery owner Hannah Swensen hears that the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band will be playing at Lake Eden, Minnesota’s Weekend Jazz Festival, she’s more than happy to bake up a generous supply of their namesake confections to welcome them to town.
Before the festival even begins, tragedy strikes when the tour bus overturns. Among those injured is Buddy Neiman, the band’s beloved keyboard player. His injuries appear minor, until his condition suddenly takes a turn for the worse – as in dead. Hannah’s no doctor, but she suspects that the surgical scissors someone plunged into Buddy’s chest may have something to do with it.
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(Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
Night Shadows
by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair’s perfect placement turns deadly … The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series.
WINNER of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What’s more, the dead man’s final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two.
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(Forbidden Iceland Mysteries)
A New Place, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Starting over in a new town has its challenges, even murder.
A murder isn’t the best way for Sheridan Hendley to start her new life as wife and step-mom. When her step-daughter and friend are framed for theft and murder, Sheridan is determined to prove the teens’ innocence. New to the community, she’s at a disadvantage as she learns about the powerful Buchanan family. Sheridan must uncover the truth before the person calling the shots takes her and her step-daughter out of the picture. Only Sheridan asks too many questions and is in danger.
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Going Rogue
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Monday mornings aren’t supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn’t shown up.
Stephanie’s worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange for a mysterious coin that a recently murdered man left as collateral for his bail. Unfortunately, this coin, which should be in the office – just like Connie – is nowhere to be found.
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(Stephanie Plum Mysteries)
Ghost Shadow
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution…vengeance…to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.
Katie O’Hara is one who can.
As she’s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie must uncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancée’s murder?
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(The Bone Island Trilogy)
Mortal Danger
by Ann Rule
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The author of The Stranger Beside Me brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Featured here is the case of a Southern California family man who lured a beautiful flight attendant into a passionate and dangerous relationship. Other cases include that of the woman who masterminded her husband’s murder to gain his inheritance…the monstrous sadist whose prison release damaged a presidential candidate’s campaign and ended in a bitter double tragedy in a quiet neighborhood three thousand miles away…
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(Ann Rule’s Crime Files Mysteries)
In the Dark Places
by Peter Robinson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Louise Penny calls In the Dark Places “brilliant.” Tess Gerritsen says it’s “thrilling.” And Michael Connelly describes Peter Robinson as “amazing.” One of the world’s greatest suspense writers returns with this sensational new novel featuring Inspector Alan Banks, hailed by Michael Connelly as “a man for all seasons.”
It’s a double mystery: Two young men have vanished, and the investigation leads to two troubling clues in two different locations.
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(Inspector Bank Mysteries)
Corrupted Obsession
by Kiana Hettinger
Rating: 4.8 #ad
I’m on a mission. My paths cross with the dark and dangerous Dante Luca. And here I am, his captive. For the past six months, I’ve spent every waking minute looking for my lost sister, Camilla.
I’ll stop at nothing to find her, my own freedom wouldn’t make me think twice. My recklessness incites a devastating turn of events that collides my world with Dante Luca. The rumored vigilante hero. My best friend’s brother-in-law.
The closer I get to him, the more we’re forced to face each other—our obsessions. His eyes are an intoxicating blue, and he is all hardened muscle. He is my enemy, but he is also my best ally.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.7 #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.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Round Up the Usual Peacocks
by Donna Andrews
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kevin, Meg’s cyber-savvy nephew who lives in the basement, comes to her with a problem. He’s become involved as the techie for a true-crime podcast, one that focuses on Virginia cold cases and unsolved crimes. And he thinks their podcast has hit a nerve with someone . . . one of the podcast team has had a brush with death that Kevin thinks was an attempted murder, not an accident.
Kevin rather sheepishly asks for Meg’s help in checking out the people involved in a couple of the cases. “Given your ability to find out stuff online, why do you need MY help?”
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(Meg Langslow Mysteries)
Red Rain Omnibus Volume 1 Boxed Set
by Rachel Newhouse, David Hartung
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dive into this fast-paced sci-fi series that’s perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and LEFT BEHIND.
Would you end the world if it meant saving your family? The year is 2075. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities – or suffer the consequences.
Stripped of her rights for refusing to assimilate, sixteen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna has grown up in a religious containment camp. When her father is summoned to work on a remote Martian base, she thinks they may have found a haven of tolerance. That is until she discovers they’re stationed on the same base where her brother mysteriously died two years before. Searching for answers, she stumbles across the plans for a chemical superweapon and must decide whether to return to Earth – or let the planet burn.
Faithless in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don’t add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body—but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things?
As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more than murder.
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(In Death Mysteries)
“N” is for Noose
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff’s office–a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of sixty-five, Newquist worked too hard, smoked too much, and exercised too little. That plus an appetite for junk food made him a poster boy for an American Heart Association campaign. Newquist’s widow didn’t doubt the coroner’s report. But what Selma couldn’t accept was not knowing what had so bothered Tom in the last six weeks of his life…
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(Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
The Hidden One
by Linda Castillo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister.
The town’s elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate’s first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania’s Kishacoquillas Valley…
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(Kate Burkholder Mysteries)
Of Blood and Bone
by Nora Roberts
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed, his disappearance becomes even more sinister.
The town’s elders arrive in Painters Mill to ask chief of police Kate Burkholder for help, but she quickly realizes she has a personal connection to the crime. The handsome Amish man who stands accused of the murder, Jonas Bowman, was Kate’s first love. Forced to confront a painful episode from her past, Kate travels to Pennsylvania’s Kishacoquillas Valley…
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(Chronicles of The One)
This Was a Man
by Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Harry Clifton’s story began in 1920, as a dock worker in England, and now he is set to write his magnum opus. As he reflects on his days, the lives of his family continue to unfold, unravel, and intertwine in ways no one could have imagined . . .
Harry’s wife Emma, who just completed her time at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, receives a surprise call from Margaret Thatcher. Meanwhile, Giles Barrington discovers a shocking truth about his wife, Karin. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank, but only after Hakim Bishara’s abrupt resignation…
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(The Clifton Chronicles)
Finding Truth
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A collection of fantasy, dystopian, super hero, and historical stories to entertain any teen (or adult)!
BRIGGLETON’S CHOIR: How will he handle the numerous life-changing conflicts coming his way, including the fact that his new friend is a Jew wanted by the Nazis? Will Alfonso be able to stand up for what’s right for the first time in his life?Will he find his voice?
ABANDON HOPE: When Hope Spencer is thirteen years old, she and her mother move to the tiny community of Cutters Notch in forested southwestern Indiana to hide from Hope’s dangerous and abusive father.
A CONFESSION OF FAITH: Facing execution for treason, eighteen-year-old Faith Webber recalls her remarkable journey.
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS: If you had a superpower, what would it be? Would you use it for good, or would you use it for revenge?
The Redemption of Time
by Baoshu
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction.
Granted a healthy clone body by the Trisolarans, Yun has spent his very long life in exile as a traitor to the human race. Nearing the end of his existence at last, he suddenly receives another reprieve—and another regeneration.
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(The Three-Body Problem Mysteries)
Kingdom of the Blind
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.
None of them had ever met the elderly woman.
The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?
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(A Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries)
GWEN SLADE, BOUNTY HUNTER
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Bounty hunter Gwen Slade always gets her man. Until she meets charming outlaw Jordie Kidd. After Jordie saves her family, she finds she can’t in good conscience turn him in, even if he is worth a thousand dollars dead or alive. Instead she sets her sights on the meanest, most-wanted gang in Kansas. Gwen always works alone until she goes after the gang then finds herself partnering with an unlikely source. This time around, not only her life, but her heart is on the line.