Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Spelling the Tea
by Erin Johnson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to the coziest, vampire-owned tea room in Bath! It’s steeped in magic and mystery.
You’re supposed to support your guy, right? Even if it means moving away from the watery source of your witchy magic and suffering through five years of writer’s block?
Minnie Wells thought so, until her soon-to-be-ex left her high and dry for another woman.
Now, she’s back in Bath, with the magic of the town’s enchanted springs flowing through her veins, ready to explore her newbie witch powers and pen her novel. Bath inspired her favorite writer Jane Austen, after all. Why wouldn’t it work for her?
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(The Magical Tea Room Mysteries)
Dark in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
It was a stab in the dark.
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel’s best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel’s blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional…
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(In Death Mysteries)
Downfall
by Angela D. Shelton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The only thing anyone wants to talk about lately is the stupid virus that’s making people sick around the globe. But thirteen-year-old Lizzy Tilbrook has bigger things on her mind, like winning her class presidency.
It’s the first stepping-stone in her plan to get into Yale. Then she’ll capture the title of Atlanta’s top lawyer.
Lizzy doesn’t need friends to do that – she needs voters. She’ll do anything to win them over and take down her rival. The new pandemic is just a speed bump along the way. Or so she thinks.
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(Collapse Mysteries)
The Forbidden
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
She is someone’s darkest desire
Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan’s creepiest role to date. It’s also scary good fun—until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can’t stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Grayson Avery, the investigator working the case.
With a rising body count and zero leads, Gray can’t help but be impressed by Avalon’s amateur sleuthing, which takes her to the darkest corners of the internet, where killers confess their crimes.
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(Krewe of Hunters Mysteries)
The Fair Isle Trilogy
by Tessonja Odette
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Every young woman dreams of marrying a king. Everyone except for me. Because the king I am to wed has razor sharp fangs and a thirst for blood…
The Fair Isle Trilogy is a complete series collection, featuring three full length novels in a single volume: To Carve a Fae Heart, To Wear a Fae Crown, and To Spark a Fae War.
The Fair Isle Trilogy Complete Series Collection is an enemies-to-lovers fantasy, perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince, ACOTAR, and The Iron King. If you like snarky fae, brooding fae royals, sizzling romance, and fierce heroines, you’ll love this breathtaking fae fantasy.
Brett Wilson and Coronado’s Door
by John Suter
Rating: 5.0 #ad
On a treasure hunting expedition with her father, Brett Wilson watches her father enter the fabled golden city of Cibola. The joy of discovery quickly turns to tragedy when the city disappears in front of her eyes.
Now in a race against time, Brett must locate the city before her father is lost forever. The only information she has to help her is the tattered old field book of her father and her best friend Natalie’s energy and enthusiasm. Together with Grandpa Jake and Natalie’s mom Dr. Brown, they must decipher the clues in the field book and understand the earth’s hidden properties to locate Cibola’s final position.
“G” is for Gumshoe
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
G IS FOR GAME… When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn’t heard from in six months, it’s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl’s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened.
G IS FOR GUN… Kinsey doesn’t know what to make of Agnes’s vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but she’s got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinsey’s car is run off the road, and then days later, she’s almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse game… G IS FOR GUMSHOE
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(Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
A Fool For Love & Money
by John D. Ottini
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Love and Money are two important ingredients in a man’s recipe for happiness. Unfortunately, those same two ingredients under the wrong circumstances can be a man’s recipe for disaster.
Unlucky at love, unemployed and drowning in debt, Thomas Murphy is a man in need of salvation.
When an unexpected gift arrives from an unknown source, Tom is confused, yet elated about his new-found fortune. His luck continues when he runs into an old flame he hasn’t seen in years and sparks begin to fly. Strange how a man’s fate can change when he least expects it – one moment he’s miserable and struggling to make ends meet, and the next he’s back on his feet and looking forward to a bright future… or so Tom thinks.
Captive
by Iris Johansen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jane MacGuire is enjoying a period of domestic bliss as she focuses on her art and her partner Seth Caleb uses his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world’s most powerful criminal empires…one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the idyllic Scottish retreat where Jane is working.
Soon Jane is on the run, struggling to stay one step ahead of Bohdan’s army and his devastating high-tech weaponry. Even with the assistance of Earl John MacDuff, she finds danger at every turn. But with that peril comes an astonishing discovery: a 200-year-old secret on the brink of becoming lost to history.
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(Eve Duncan Mysteries)
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Candy Corn Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s peril at the Pumpkin Fest in this Maine-set mystery by the New York Times-bestselling author…
Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes as planned.
Lucy’s getting annoyed that her husband, Bill, and his friend Evan have been working seemingly nonstop on their potentially prize-winning pumpkin catapult. But on the day of the big contest, Evan is nowhere to be found…until a catapulted pumpkin busts open the trunk of the Dodge, revealing a deceased Evan.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
Wicked Appetite
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston’s North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down—and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony.
Caught in a race against time, Diesel and Lizzie soon find out that more isn’t always better, as they battle Wulf and the first of the deadly sins.
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(Lizzy & Diesel Mysteries)
The Evermores Chronicles Complete Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Say the right words in just the right way, and step through a mirror into Mana Valley. A pocket dimension hidden on Oriceran.
Something dark is stirring under Mana Valley and what it wants could transform the world in terrible ways.
Will Fran and the old lineage of Evermores be able to put a stop to it before it’s too late for both worlds?
An old prophecy thought to be a myth has surfaced. Can Fran and her friends find out what it means in time to stop what’s happening on Earth and Oriceran?
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives.
The Next Accident
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.7 #ad
What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you?
These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth—and there’s only one person willing to help. Ex-cop Rainie Connor had once been paired professionally—and personally—with the brilliant FBI profiler. He helped her through the darkest days of her life.
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(FBI Profiler Mysteries)
Under Your Bed Collection
by Blair Daniels, Blair Daniels, Robert Mort
Rating: 4.2 #ad
My husband insists on keeping this one painting of a woman. I listened to a true crime podcast… about myself. I found an old childhood photo. There’s something terribly wrong with it.
UNDER YOUR BED brings you 13 terrifying tales for your darkest nights. From horrific games of hide-and-seek to sinister paintings, from tiny fairy gardens to malevolent doppelgängers, this collection is guaranteed to make you fear what goes bump in the night.
These tales are longer than those in the bestselling Don’t Scream collection by Blair Daniels.
“H” is for Homicide
by Sue Grafton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he’d been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity’s offices.
To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn’t like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.
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(Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
A Peculiar Combination
by Ashley Weaver
Rating: 4.5 #ad
FIRST RULE: DON’T LOSE YOUR CONCENTRATION. Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick’s locksmith business just can’t pay the bills anymore.
SECOND RULE: DON’T MAKE MISTAKES. So when Uncle Mick receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in an empty house, he and Ellie can’t resist. All is going as planned—until the pair is caught red-handed. But instead of arresting them, government official Major Ramsey has an offer: either Ellie agrees to help him break into a safe and retrieve blueprints crucial to the British war effort, or he turns her over to the police.
THIRD RULE: DON’T GET CAUGHT.
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(Electra McDonnell Mysteries)