Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sparks and Landmarks
by Trixie Silvertale
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A suspicious fire. A Valentine’s Day discovery. Will this psychic sleuth gamble – and lose? Mitzy Moon’s clairvoyant abilities are growing, but she never predicted arson. After waking to a towering inferno and loading her mentor into an ambulance, she thought things couldn’t get worse. But when the sheriff links her father to the blaze, she’s forced to take the case.
Coming up empty on love and leads pushes Mitzy to unnecessary risks. Now her otherworldly helpers, a nosy Ghost-ma and a fiendish feline, are the only ones who can save her bacon…
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(Mitzy Moon Mysteries)
Picture You Dead
by Peter James
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace finds himself plunged into an unfamiliar and rarefied world of fine art. Outwardly it appears respectable, gentlemanly, above reproach. But beneath the veneer, he rapidly finds that greed, deception and violence walk hand-in-hand.
Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale.
It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true – until the day it did…
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(Roy Grace Mysteries)
Tomb of Malevolent Evil Complete Boxed Set
by Kevin Mclaughlin, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Game night will never be the same again for Terry, Jewel, Mandy, and Morgan.
The role-playing gamers thought they were getting together for a gaming session. Now they’ve been summoned into another reality.
A reality that is dangerous and deadly to them. Here they can’t just roll a new character and keep playing.
Get the complete series and join the gamer crew as they Roll For Initiative.
The reality they’ve been summoned to looks and feels an awful lot like the games they’re used to playing.
But this is no game, and the Power that brought them here has plunged the players into a life or death battle. They must defeat their enemies and escape the dungeon, or die trying.
When the game becomes all too real, it’s time to roll the dice and play for keeps.
Two Steps Forward
by Luana Ehrlich
Rating: 4.8 #ad
CIA operative Titus Ray expects the unexpected.
Just not this time. Just not this way. Just not on his honeymoon.
An unexpected encounter in Morocco . . .Titus and Nikki begin their new life together in a church ceremony in Norman, Oklahoma and immediately fly to Marrakesh, Morocco for their honeymoon. Then, the unexpected happens, and Titus has an encounter with Jihadi terrorist Baran Asan.
An unexpected discovery in Israel . . . Cutting their honeymoon short, Titus and Nikki head over to Israel to search for their foster child’s grandmother, but then an unexpected discovery leads to a second sighting of Baran Asan and reveals disturbing news about a planned assassination in Iraq.
An unexpected assassination in Iraq . . .
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(Titus Ray Thrillers)
Kalendra Chronicles Four Book Boxed set
by Barbara Ferrier
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A girl born beneath three moons. A magical land under threat. Can she stop the end of everything?
Tahendra can’t let a puzzle go unsolved. So when the intuitive seventeen-year-old and her bestie find a mysterious journal floating in a closet, she’s determined to get answers from her pal’s estranged uncle. And after discovering the old man is a frequent traveler into another world, she enthusiastically leads her crew through a portal to a bewitched kingdom.
Meeting a powerful wizard who turns out to be her relative, Tahendra is astonished to learn she’s from the enchanted realm and has an important destiny. But no sooner have she and her friends begun enchantment/sorcery training than a poisonous assassination attempt leaves her life hanging by a thread.
Will Tahendra survive long enough to master her abilities and save an ancient magic?
What She Found
by Robert Dugoni
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the past in a pulse-pounding novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Solving the cold case is an obsession for Lisa’s daughter, Anita. So is clearing the name of her father, a prime suspect who became a pariah. After twenty-five years, all Anita wants is the truth—no matter where it leads.
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(Tracy Crosswhite Mysteries)
Diablo Mesa
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Solving a decades-old disappearance sets Tracy Crosswhite on a dangerous collision course with the past in a pulse-pounding novel by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Solving the cold case is an obsession for Lisa’s daughter, Anita. So is clearing the name of her father, a prime suspect who became a pariah. After twenty-five years, all Anita wants is the truth—no matter where it leads.
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(Nora Kelly Mysteries)
Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable…
Abandoning Rand’s war against the Dark One, Perrin Aybara has made his own truce with the Seanchan in his obsessive quest to save his wife Faile from the Shaido and destroy their mutual enemies. To achieve victory, Perrin must render the Shaido Wise One channelers in Malden powerless. But even as he puts his desperate plan into action, Masema Dagar, the Prophet of the Dragon, moves against him.
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(Wheel of Time Mysteries)
Waverunner
by LJ Peace
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Brand New Release from LJ Peace
Kids! Sail the high seas to adventure with WAVERUNNER. Meet the Skipper and Jedediah, two men who walk in step with the Holy Spirit. There will be plenty of action and surprises along the way.
Did someone say PIRATES? Yes! And these pirates are definitely out-of-this-world. Thank goodness Jed and the Skipper know all about the Fruit of the Spirit.
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(My Kind of Kitten)
Hour Game
by David Baldacci
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal’s motives…or who will die next.
Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man’s innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family.
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(King & Maxwell Mysteries)
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.