Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice
by Waverly Curtis
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Aspiring P.I. Geri Sullivan’s new case has got her talking Chihuahua, Pepe, hot under the collar. Wealthy widow Lucille Carpenter left her entire fortune to her beloved dogs, and someone is trying to poison them. Anyone who would hurt a perro is lower than a cucaracha in Pepe’s book. But when Geri and Pepe investigate, they discover that it’s not just the coddled canines who are in danger. Now there are human targets too.
At the lavish Carpenter manor, Pepe digs for clues among the pampered pooches, bitter relatives, suspicious staff, and larcenous lawyers. But there’s only one diminutive detective smart enough to save the day–and the dogs. . .
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(Barking Detective Mysteries)
Karen Kingsbury True Crime Novels
by Karen Kingsbury
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Four chilling true crime novels by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter.
Final Vows: Murder, Madness, and Twisted Justice in California
Deadly Pretender: The Double Life of David Miller
The Snake and the Spider: Abduction and Murder in Daytona Beach
Missy’s Murder: Passion, Betrayal, and Murder in Southern California
Death Sentence
by Joe Sharkey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion – and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a nineteen-room home in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utter failure. Straining under financial burdens, the stress of hiding his unemployment, as well as the fear that the free-spirited 1970s would corrupt the souls of his children, List came to a shattering conclusion.
Girl, Forgotten
by Karin Slaughter
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A small town hides a big secret… Who killed Emily Vaughn? A girl with a secret…
Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the evening, that secret will be silenced forever.
An unsolved murder… Forty years later, Emily’s murder remains a mystery. Her tight-knit group of friends closed ranks; her respected, wealthy family retreated inwards; the small town moved on from her grisly attack. But all that’s about to change.
Knight’s Shadow
by Sebastien de Castell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Greatcoats have found the heir to the throne . . . but now they must keep her alive, against all the odds.
That would be simple enough, if it weren’t for the renegade Knights and legendary Dashini assassins, getting in their way, not to mention the Dukes, who are desperate to hold on to their power at any cost, or Trin, the merciless daughter of the ruthless Duke of Rijou and the cruel Duchess of Hervor, who is determined to be Queen of Tristia. Of course, the fact that the heir to the throne is thirteen years old doesn’t help, nor the fact that every day brings Falcio closer to dying from the poison running through his veins.
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(Greatcoats Mysteries)
The Hunt
by Faye Kellerman
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York.
But that’s not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with.
Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina’s foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction amid a messy divorce. But LA is no escape from her problems—she is found by ruthless men and beaten mercilessly. When she wakes, barely conscious, Teresa discovers that both of her children are gone and frantically calls Gabe for help.
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(Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mysteries)
The Inmate
by Freida McFadden
Rating: 4.4 #ad
There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison:
Treat all prisoners with respect.
Never reveal any personal information.
Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.
But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Pickled to Death
by Gayle Leeson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The fair would have been a lot more fun if Aunt Bess hadn’t been accused of murder…and if the streaker hadn’t been such a disappointment! (Aunt Bess has her priorities straight!)
When Aunt Bess enters the county fair’s pickle competition to defeat the reigning “Big Dill,” she’s the prime suspect when the blue ribbon winner is bashed over the head with a jar of pickles. Will Amy be able to set things right before Aunt Bess ends up in the slammer?
The Omega Factor
by Steve Berry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick’s job is to protect the world’s cultural artifacts – anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures.
When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years…
One Man’s Promise
by Laura Domino
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a safe haven, but still learning about love. One Man’s Promisecontinues Sharla’s story from book one. Read One Man’s Haven first!
Afraid for her life, Sharla flees San Francisco and hopes the rest of her family is still safe. Her life isn’t over after all, but she’s still unsettled. Staying under the radar and out of her enemy’s grasp means she must learn a new way of life away from the city.
Is Sharla starting over in the right place? Hiding isn’t paradise when her enemy catches up with her. How will Sharla escape a second time?
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(The Protector Mysteries)
No Way Out
by David Silver
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The clock is ticking.
When Amanda Reeves, a beautiful young student, is kidnapped on the streets of Los Angeles, LAPD Detective Ray Collins knows that every second counts. Because the kidnapping is clearly the latest work of the serial killer known as the “Night Shade Killer,” who has terrified the city for the past twelve years.
Each year, the killer kidnaps a victim to torture and eventually kill them after a thoroughly planned ritual. Each time, there are exactly nine days between the abduction and the victim’s death. The murderer has never been caught.
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(Detective Ray Collins Mysteries)
Cursed
by Thomas Enger
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When a woman fails to return from a retreat in Italy, investigative journalist Henning Juul discovers that she never left Oslo … and her disappearance leads to a chilling case that has unexpected and devastating links to the past.
What secret would you kill to protect?
When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy, her husband discovers that his wife’s life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no record of her and, what’s more, she appears to be connected to the death of an old man, gunned down on the first day of the hunting season in the depths of the Swedish forests.
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(Henning Juul Mysteries)
My Lies, Your Lies
by Susan Lewis
Rating: 4.3 #ad
She’s rewriting history, but which version of the truth will she tell?
Joely tells other people’s secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she’s used to scandal – but this just might be her strangest assignment yet. Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she’s ready to set the record straight and right a wrong that’s haunted her for forty years.
Wicked Dreams
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Rating: NEW RELEASE #ad
Brand New Release at REGULAR PRICE
The New York Times bestselling authors return with a chilling new thriller set on an isolated island off the Oregon coast. A group of women with extraordinary gifts will need to face evil…before it returns to burn their refuge to the ground.
The note pinned to the dead body found on the remote beach has no name, just Ravinia Rutledge’s phone number and the words “Next of Kin.” Ravinia insists she doesn’t recognize the man on the mortuary slab, but she suspects Detective Nev Rhodes doesn’t believe her. He can tell that she’s one of them – the Siren Song women.
Five years after moving away from The Colony, Ravinia has carved out a life as a private investigator whose specialty is helping others locate their missing loved ones.