Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Cupcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 4.4 #ad
While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa’s waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michelle’s love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah’s advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she’s not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned storefront two doors down from Hannah’s bakery . . .
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(A Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
The Secrets We Keep
by A J Wills
Rating: 4.1 #ad
With every passing minute, hopes of finding Annie Warren alive are fading fast. The ten-year-old should have been home from school hours ago and her parents, Cathy and Kit, are frantic with worry.
The police seem completely clueless while the Warrens’ house is besieged by a news-hungry press pack.
Among them is Yannick Kellor, an ambitious TV reporter who’s spotted an opportunity to make name for himself. But that’s not his only reason for wanting to solve the mystery of Annie’s disappearance.
Vampire Librarian
by Kristin Kova
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Save London from an impending vampire apocalypse? Sorry, my week is all booked.
That’s a book pun—I’m a librarian. Specifically, the arcane archivist at the Witching Library in the heart of London.
Humans don’t know about the secret magical world of witches, shifters, and seers like me. So when vampires steal a dark codex from the library, no police come to save me when I’m caught in the crossfire. I’m left in a pool of blood, with a searing scratch on my arm.
When I transition and lose control of my new thirst, a dangerously powerful—and hot as hell—vampire pulls me back from the edge.
The Usual Santas Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more.
This captivating collection, which features bestselling and award-winning authors, contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.
New Castle’s Kadunce Murders
by Dale Richard Perelman
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Author Dale Richard Perelman tells the tragic story of the 1978 murders and the mystery surrounding them.
In the summer of 1978, a mother and her four-year-old were stabbed to death in the quiet town of New Castle. Police suspected the husband, Lou Kadunce, but were unable to find either a weapon or a motive. Sitting in a Lawrence County jail in 1981, convicted serial killer Michael Atkinson accused Frank Costal – a carny, petty thief and Satanist – of having an affair with the Kadunce husband and participating in the murder. A series of intense trials ensued as Costal was convicted of the homicides and a jury found the husband not guilty. Questions surrounding the case gripped the region and grabbed headlines in the Pittsburgh Press.
Dory Returns
by William Black
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s 1869 in the New Mexico Territory and the frontier legend of Dory McLee is only growing. The farm girl is as skilled at riding, shooting and chasing criminals as much as her male counterparts.
Back east, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, know about Dory thanks to the sensationalized dime books and pamphlets, yelling out her western moxie. Their stories, including the taming of a grizzly bear, may be exaggerated. Yet people have become enchanted with the young woman.
Funeral for a Friend
by Brian Freeman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jonathan Stride’s best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve’s yard and find a body with a bullet hole in its skull.
Stride is pretty sure he knows who it is. Seven years ago, an out-of-town reporter disappeared while investigating anonymous allegations of rape against a prominent politician. Back then, the police believed that the reporter drowned at a dangerous swimming hole called the Deeps … but the discovery of the body changes everything. Now Stride’s partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask Stride an uncomfortable question: Did you kill him?
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(The Jonathan Stride Mysteries)
Niergel Chronicles – Quest
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Niergel Chronicles – Quest continues the fantastic adventures of Jeff Sutherland, a brilliant young scientist who encounters a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
Dangerous enemies are stepping up their attacks as dark forces grow increasingly threatened by our hero’s discoveries. He is, meanwhile, drawn more deeply into his search for the truth about his heritage and the earth’s past.
Book Two, Quest is the story of Jeff’s soul-stirring pursuit of truth. Not just the truth about his lost family but also the most extraordinary reality of all. One that upends everything he ever believed, as he realizes that it is the only defense against the dark forces who now threaten the entire world.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Shifting and Shenanigans
by Elizabeth Pantley
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Paige and her adventurous Aunt Glo inherit a country inn from eccentric GeeGee. They pack up and hit the road, arriving at the charming place they both loved since childhood. Finally! They can get into the secret room in the basement that GeeGee kept locked! They discover it’s a wonderful library filled to the brim with mystery books. But more than the room was a secret – it’s a magical place that houses enchanted books. Paige and Glo find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a murder mystery, along with a motley group of book club friends.
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(Magical Mystery Book)
A Strike to the Heart
by Danielle Grandinetti
Rating: 4.4 #ad
She’s fiercely independent. He’s determined to protect her.
Wisconsin, 1933—When a routine mission becomes an ambush that kills his team, Craft Agency sniper Miles Wright determines to find the persons responsible and protect the woman he rescued. But the fierce independence that led Lily Moore to leave her family’s dairy business for the solitary life of a dog trainer and the isolation of her farm don’t make that easy. Neither does his unwanted attraction to her. Meanwhile, escalating incidents confirm that she’s far from safe.
Lily fears letting the surprisingly gentle retired marine into her life almost as much as she fears whoever is threatening her.
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(Strike to the Heart Series)
Half-Told Truths
by Amy O. Lewis
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Kim Jackson is starting to get used to life on the run. In Durango, Colorado, she has found work as a part-time bookkeeper and as a live-in housekeeper for Lena Fallon, an ex-cop paralyzed in the line of duty. Kim’s old life as a corporate accountant—when she was framed for murder and forced to go on the run—feels far away until someone from her past spots her in the tourist town. Too soon, danger comes to her doorstep, reminding her that she can’t be safe while the man who set her up remains free.
Kim’s housemate and boss, Lena, is no stranger to the dark side of humanity. Lena is still reeling from the unsolved crime that ended her law enforcement career. She doesn’t give a damn about her latest housekeeper, until she senses Kim is hiding something.
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(Colorado Skies Series)
A Fools Quest To Moon Water
by Gary Diamond
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Moon Water, an Apache legend, where supposedly, they have a cave of gold. Some women and children, white captives, are also held at Moon Water.
But where is Moon Water? Does it really exist? One white man has been there and was allowed to leave. Ethan Garrett.
The year is 1865, the last few weeks of the American Civil War. A Confederate troop steal a consignment of Union gold and attempt to take it across the border to Mexico. They are stopped by the Apache and most of the people, including civilians, from a wagon train are butchered. White captives are taken and the Confederate captain is blindfolded and taken to Moon Water, along with the stolen gold. Somehow the captain escapes; the white captives are not so lucky…
The Terminal List
by Jack Carr
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller that is “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written—rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.
The Family at No. 12
by Anita Waller
Rating: Brand New Release #ad
The explosive new thriller from international bestseller Anita Waller.
When Janette answers the door to a potential customer looking to board his dog, she never imagines he has nefarious plans. But minutes later he’s dead and in her cellar.
Weeks later she realizes she’s pregnant. And so she becomes Mother and the baby Child, and a hidden life begins. But all secrets come out eventually . . .
Lost Gods
by Brom
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom.
Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . . .
Snared and murdered by a vile, arcane horror, Chet quickly learns that pain and death are not unique to the living. Now the lives and very souls of his wife and unborn child are at stake.
Tidal Falls
by Jacquie Biggar
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Great book! This is a suspense/romance that will keep you on your toes as well as touch your heart! by Barb
ALL SHE WANTS IS TO LIVE HER LIFE Abused, Sara Sheridan finds the courage to escape her husband. She has no interest in getting mixed up with another alpha, attitude-laden male. Especially with her ex hot on her trail.
ALL HE CRAVES IS PEACE AND QUIET Marine, Nick Kelley prefers solitude, away from the memories haunting him. So what is it about his reticent neighbor and her child that tempts him to give it up?
UNTIL LOVE GETS IN THE WAY
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(Wounded Hearts Series)
Dopesick
by Beth Macy
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Journalist Beth Macy’s definitive account of America’s opioid epidemic “masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference” (New York Times) – from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the living rooms of Americans.
In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor’s offices; wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia; from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns; the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
My Kind of Kitten
by LJ Peace
Rating: Brand New release #ad
Kids! MY KIND OF KITTEN is about an imaginative girl named Crissy, who finds adventure each summer in the very special town of Cliffside. She will have to be brave to face a very mean vulture named Buzz.
Join Crissy as she learns about anger, pride, envy, and love-in-action. She will also need to sort out her relationship with a moody, selfish friend.
Warning. Crissy has a very active imagination. In her make-believe worlds, she faces train robbers, space pirates, and a lava monster. She must also stand up against a very real, unfriendly vulture who could be a little frightening to sensitive people.