Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Crypt Suzette
by Maya Corrigan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After winning the costume contest at the Halloween-themed bookstore party, Suzette is mowed down by a hit-and-run driver – and Val and her grandfather start to wonder whether it was really an accident or if someone was after Suzette. Granddad is a little distracted by his new enterprise as a ghost-buster, but as Val talks to Suzette’s coworkers and fellow creative writing students, she grows more convinced that the dead woman’s demons weren’t imaginary—and that she needs to rip the mask off a killer …
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(A Five-Ingredient Mysteries)
A Fire in the Night
by Christopher Swann
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Nick Anthony has retreated to the North Carolina mountains to mourn the untimely death of his wife. Once a popular professor, Nick just wants to be left alone with his grief. But when his estranged brother and sister-in-law die in a house fire, a stunned Nick learns he has a niece, Annalise, who is missing.
At the scene of the crime, the men who set the fire have realized Annalise, and the information they are looking for, got away. Feverish and exhausted, she stumbles onto her uncle’s porch, throwing Nick into the middle of the mystery of her parents’ death and the dangerous criminals hunting her down.
Midlife Psychic
by Carolyn Arnold
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hot flashes in my forties? Expected. Waking up psychic? Not in my wildest dreams.
My name is Erin Stone. I’m forty-three with a daughter away at college and a successful career as a communications officer with the 911 dispatch center for the Toronto Police Service. My life had just returned to a new normal after my divorce and everything was going along smoothly. Then BOOM! Turns out the universe had other plans for me.
I dreamed of a plane crash—only it wasn’t just a dream. The crash happened in real life. Eighty-three dead. A vision, plain and simple. Not exactly. My family certainly wouldn’t understand. And me…psychic? I’d dabbled in new-age spirituality in the past but never plunged into the deep end. Now I’m in over my head.
Dust
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy.
The Lawless Land
by Boyd Morrison
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Live by the sword. Die for the truth.
England, 1351. The Pestilence has ravaged the land. Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways are patrolled by marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves.
But Gerard Fox cannot afford to be wise. The young knight has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and reputation, he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them.
12th of Never
by James Patterson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
It’s finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor-while two killers are on the loose.
Lindsay Boxer’s beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.
A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she’s ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he’s convinced is real. Lindsay doesn’t believe him, but then a shooting is called in-and it fits the professor’s description to the last detail.
A Pinch of Poison
by Alyssa Maxwell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
To learn the truth, Joe must hide his identity and join the Jensen Gang. But once he’s in, there’s no guarantee he can get back out.
For months Grady Jensen has been terrorizing Hell’s End. No one has been able to stop the gang, and Joe Noble is determined to find out why.
Corruption
This word is nothing new to this town, but until Jensen took his eye and left him for dead, Joe never realized how far it extended. The sheriffs. The marshals. The Pinkertons. Everyone is in on it.
There’s only one man he trusts, and his plan is good, but dangerous. To stop Jensen, he must assume a new identity and join their gang. He’s no longer Joe Noble. Now he’s Jack Reaper.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Double Twist
by Stephanie Rowe
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A high-octane, feel-good romp starring women you’ll wish were your best friends, an inconveniently attractive cop, a posse of gray-haired quilters with a fondness for margaritas, and an eccentric town with more secrets than Mia’s con artist mom.
“An enjoyable and suspenseful whodunit with a smart, captivating hero.” ~Kirkus Reviews
All Mia Murphy wants is an ordinary, law-abiding life. Accidentally marrying a drug kingpin?
Magnify
by Stefanie Lozinski
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The dragons have fled the skies. A noble House is clinging to life. The God of gods is rising.
As the Envoy of the Four Kingdoms, Wes has had his purpose decided since birth: sacrifice the treasures of the people to the dragon gods, and they will keep Kaveryth safe.
For five years, he’s been forced to watch his Kingdom fall into ruin while carrying an unbearable grief of his own. The Elders insist that they must continue to be faithful to the Dracodei, but Wes is beginning to doubt that their protectors are holding up their end of the bargain.
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(Storm & Spire Mysteries)
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
by C.S. Robertson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
‘A brilliantly original thriller, dark and brooding, with a real emotional punch’ DOUG JOHNSTONE
Death is not the end. For Grace McGill, it’s only the beginning.
When people die alone and undiscovered, it’s her job to clean up what’s left behind – whether it’s clutter, bodily remains or dark secrets.
When an old man lies undetected in his flat for months, it seems an unremarkable life and an unnoticed death. But Grace knows that everyone has a story and that all deaths mean something more.
Star-Crossed Dragons
by Chris Cannon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Ice-princess, Sara Sinclair, is the most un-Blue Blue Dragon of her Clan. And now her parents signed a marriage contract to an absolute asshat. Sara has no interest in being one half of a snobby Blue power couple. In fact, all she can dream about is biting her obnoxious fiancé’s head off and burying him in the garden. Since that can’t happen, her future seems like a lost cause, until she meets Ian, a fire-breathing Red Dragon—who is everything her fiancé is not.
Now Sara’s jumped from the frying pan into the fire because dating outside of your Clan is against Directorate law. Ian could be thrown in jail or executed without a trial. But now that she knows what love feels like, she can’t imagine being with anyone else.
Dangerous Holidays
by Alexa Verde
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Three fast-paced Christmas romantic suspense novellas with a dash of mystery!
A celebrity in peril and the small-town boy who crushed her heart years ago get a second chance–before someone might kill her. A former thief is now a target–is it because of her secrets or her skills? Two dead bodies, one drive-by shooting, and a kidnaped pet later, a nurse and a PI with a soul wound need to solve the mystery who killed her neighbor—or die trying.
“A great Christmas collection… There is suspense and mystery in each story that will keep you hanging on.” Nanc VINE VOICE
Aura of Night
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.7 #ad
True evil never dies. It only waits in the dark.
All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe. Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail—a reminder that the nightmare isn’t over just yet.
FBI investigator Ragnar Johnson is running out of time. He knows in his gut there’s more to the recent Embracer killings, and he needs Megan’s help.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)
Chronicles of an Urban Druid Omnibus (Books 1-8)
by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.
Meet Fionna mac Cumhaill an urban druid coming into her powers and trying to master them.
She has a family she didn’t know about, a magical heritage laying its claim, and a mystery she apparently needs to solve.
Grab this 8-book boxed set to dive into the first half of the exciting adventures of this red-haired lass from Toronto!
Phule’s Paradise
by Robert Asprin
Rating: 4.6 #ad
THE FEW. THE PROUD. THE STUPID. THE INEPT. It was the perfect solution, put highly connected Captain Willard Phule in charge of the worst dregs of the Space Force. Sure, Phule’s Company may be a band of rejects and misfits, but they did manage to save the day with their unorthodox methods. Embarrassed, the Space Force may have found the perfect equation for disaster: Assign Phule’s pack of oddballs to save the Fat Chance Casino from a criminal take over. Phule’s Company may stop the mob … but who will save the casino from them?
Total Control
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust.
Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world’s leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear — leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all.
Home Is Where the Heart Is
by Casey Dawes
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A photojournalist damaged by war. A web of family secrets. Can she untangle the past to save her future?
CJ Beck won’t let anything destroy her hard-earned career. So when the award she craves gets within reach, she refuses to back down even when her body and mind need healing. When her boss insists she bare her soul to a therapist, she’ll fake it until she gets the rubber stamp to get her back to the warfront.
She’s taken photographs of people in the most dangerous places on the earth. She isn’t afraid to face anything … except herself.
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(Beck Family Saga)