Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Samhain: A Hallowe’en
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Hallowe’en Adventure with Mystere LeJeune and her Family.
Follow Misty and her magickal family as they cavort through carnivals and pumpkin patches preparing for Hallowe’en and for Forest’s third birthday. Murder and Mayhem seem to follow Misty wherever she goes. Many of Misty’s family members – past and present – gather at Samhain to celebrate together when the veil between the worlds is thinnest.
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(Beltane: The Wedding)
The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793
by Niklas Natt och Dag
Rating: 4.2 #ad
One morning in the autumn of 1793, watchman Mikel Cardell is awakened from his drunken slumber with reports of a body seen floating in the Larder, once a pristine lake on Stockholm’s Southern Isle, now a rancid bog. Efforts to identify the bizarrely mutilated corpse are entrusted to incorruptible lawyer Cecil Winge, who enlists Cardell’s help to solve the case. But time is short: Winge’s health is failing, the monarchy is in shambles, and whispered conspiracies and paranoia abound.
Winge and Cardell become immersed in a brutal world of guttersnipes and thieves, mercenaries and madams.
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(The City Between the Bridges: 1794)
Connections in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads—and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path. For expert help, they hire child psychologist Dr. Rochelle Pickering—whose own brother pulled himself out of a spiral of addiction and crime with Rochelle’s support.
Lyle is living with Rochelle while he gets his life together, and he’s thrilled to hear about his sister’s new job offer. But within hours, triumph is followed by tragedy.
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(In Death Mysteries)
Croft Murders
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Someone is attempting to kill newlywed Nora Scott and make her death appear accidental. It’s up to the Fog Busters, the “Old Bones Detectives”, to keep her alive.
Unfortunately, their success seems improbable. From the resurgence of a Scottish folktale about a washerwoman who foretells people’s deaths to food that was apparently poisoned using an everyday ingredient, the Fog Busters’ attempts to protect Nora are thwarted. And the deeper the Fog Busters delve into the mystery, the closer danger spreads to them.
Running the gamut from Nora’s dysfunctional family to a pouting rooster, the Fog Busters’ first mystery that promises actual payment turns into a deadly contest between the over-60 crowd and a cunning killer.
Broken
by t.g. brown
Rating: 4.4 #ad
At first glance, the figure could have been construed as a large cocoon hanging from the church rafters. But as one moved closer, the outline of a man came into focus, his body strung upside down . . . his thick torso squirming against his restraints as though he was about to be reborn.
While bullfrog hunting on a cloud-covered night in the Louisiana Bayou JOSH INGRAM had no way of knowing the cogs of a grisly nightmare had already begun to turn. A nightmare that takes root with the murder of a priest in Northern Ireland only to find its way to a schoolyard in Louisiana.
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(Josh Ingram Mysteries)
Parallel Roads
by Dennis Higgins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When the spring of 1946 comes, Katherine Callahan decides to leave her loving husband and newborn baby so that she may embark upon an unknowingly tragic journey across the famous American highway from Chicago to her sister’s home in Burbank. She never does arrive.
Fast forward into the present, Kevin Callahan, Katherine’s grandson, along with his best friend Cheryl Bachman, traces his grandmother’s steps along the now decommissioned road to uncover the mystery surrounding her disappearance. They are armed with only a handful of postcards from Katherine and a Victorian secret code involving postage stamps surrounding a mysterious man from her past.
Darwin’s Cipher
by M.A. Rothman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Juan Gutierrez, a cancer researcher, has spent years studying the genome of animals that exhibit immunity to some types of cancer. Over the course of his study, Juan discovers a pattern that allows him to predict the course of a species’ evolution across thousands of generations.
Using the algorithm he’s developed from the pattern, Juan uncovers what he believes to be the key to conquering humanity’s susceptibility to cancer…
Drop Shot
by Harlan Coben
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Once, Valerie Simpson’s tennis career skyrocketed; now, the headlines belong to a player from the wrong side of the tracks. But when Valerie is shot dead in cold blood and dropped outside the stadium at the U.S. Open, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates the killing and uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive mainline club. As Myron is drawn into the case – along with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous mother, and the mob – he finds himself caught between a killer and the truth.
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(Myron Bolitar Mysteries)
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)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Butchered After Bark
by Addison Moore, Bellamy Bloom
Rating: 4.6 #ad
My name is Bizzy Baker, and I can read minds—not every mind, not every time but most of the time and believe me when I say it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
It’s October and Jasper and I just returned from our honeymoon to find the inn playing host to the Haunted Harvest Festival, complete with a pumpkin patch, scare nights, a midway with games, and enough candy to rot your teeth. But a secretive group of women, called the Midnight Maidens, decide to host a little private party of their own on the grounds and the night ends in murder. Throw in the haunted doll collection Georgie had shipped to the inn, and you have the recipe for the spookiest Halloween season that Cider Cove has ever seen. Hold onto your pointed hat—things are about to get terrifying.
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(Happy Howl-o-ween Horror)
Broken Promises
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a new O’Connell family novel about secrets and lies, and a woman who has no reason to trust anyone.
What do you do when a woman shows up on your doorstep, suddenly wanting her daughter back? Never in a million years did Marcus and Charlotte O’Connell expect to be faced with this kind of dilemma, but when Reine Colbert is released from prison, she shows up at their house, demanding they return her daughter, Eva.
Worse is the fact that Sheriff Marcus never received a courtesy call from the prison or parole board to warn him that Reine was about to be released…
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
FantasticLand
by Mike Bockoven
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
Chosen To Die
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The cold of winter isn’t just a nuisance in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana. It’s merciless and brutal—a weapon that a twisted serial killer uses to torture vulnerable women. Detectives Regan Pescoli and Selena Alvarez have spent months tracking down the Star-Crossed Killer, as he’s dubbed by the press. They know how devious and patient he can be. What they couldn’t have guessed is that Pescoli would be abducted by the very monster she’s been hunting . . .
Pescoli knows too much about her captor and his methods to doubt her fate. She’s a trophy he’s content to taunt for now, but eventually, he’ll tire of her too. Until then, his killing spree continues, stretching the police department—and Alvarez—to the breaking point.
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(An Alvarez & Pescoli Mysteries)
Day by Day Armageddon: Grey Fox
by J.L. Bourne
Rating: 4.5 #ad
This chilling horror novel recounts a man’s daily struggle to survive the Zombie Apocalypse: ”hands down the best zombie book I have ever read” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Patriot).
As vague news reports of trouble abroad trickle in, a young Navy officer stationed in San Antonio keeps his New Year’s resolution to maintain a daily journal. There’s word of some sort of virus in China. There’s word of violence spreading through cities across the U.S. Suddenly, the terrifying truth makes itself known. The dead are rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food chain.
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(Day By Day Armageddon Mysteries)
A House of Bells
by J. T. Croft
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A woman haunted by fate, a child silenced by fear, and a house full of secrets and bells.
- Stripped of her reputation and haunted by a spirit she failed to protect, the young governess Grace Meadows finds herself out of time and growing more and more desperate. But when she’s offered a strange job from an eccentric medium, she never could have imagined what she was signing up for.
Tasked with caring for a troubled young girl who has lost the ability to speak, Grace must unravel the dangerous secrets at the heart of a run-down country mansion and find the source of the horrors which now threaten both of their lives.
Love & Marriage Box Set
by Bookarama Publishing
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fake relationships never turn real, right?
Getting engaged let alone married to a giant jerk wasn’t the plan. But destiny has other plans, throwing me into his strong arms. I do my best not to fall for his charm. Yet the more time I spend with him, the harder it is to continue hating him. My body is electrified by him. His kisses make me dizzy with need. I do my best to resist this shark. Forgetting there’s nothing a shark likes better than a challenge. I can’t get this suave Alpha out of my head. Our fake relationship is turning very real. If I’m not careful, I’ll end up falling for the playboy. Can an enemies-to-lovers romance ever end well, or will he break my heart?