Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Thrill of the Hunt
by Rita Mae Brown
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“Cunning foxes, sensible hounds, and sweet-tempered horses are among the sparkling conversationalists in this charming series.” – The New York Times Book Review
It’s the start of fox-hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, several members of the hunt club receive ominous videos in which they appear to be doing scandalous, career-ending deeds. The videos are doctored, but does it matter? The unknown blackmailer promises to publish the clips if they don’t get paid, and even the most upstanding citizen can be brought down by the court of public opinion.
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(“Sister” Jane Cozy Mysteries)
12 PILLS
by Kirk Burris
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A “race against the clock” thriller that keeps you guessing in this murder mystery with multiple twists!
A maniacal serial killer is on the loose in Kansas City. And the calling card is an orange pill bottle shoved down the throats of the victims. Their caps are numbered in sharpie, announcing more to come. FBI Agent Whelan, traumatized from the loss of his former partner, is asked by The Bureau to join the manhunt. The murderer is targeting his childhood friends.
The fourth victim, discovered in Miami, whips the investigation across the country. Unsure who to trust, Whelan battles corruption inside the K.C. field office, and an interfering media, whose leaked video of one of the victims goes viral…
Locked On
by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can—even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns to become President of the United States again.
But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout enemy of Jack Sr. launches a privately-funded vendetta to discredit him and connect him to a mysterious killing in his longtime ally John Clark’s past. All they have to do is catch him.
One Perfect Lie
by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can – even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns to become President of the United States again.
On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He’s applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he’s ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable.
But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.
Susan Sematov is proud of her son Raz, a high school pitcher so athletically talented that he’s being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But Raz’s father died only a few months ago, leaving her son in a vulnerable place where any new father figure might influence him for good, or evil.
Banana Slit
by Angela K. Ryan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The grand opening of Anna McBride’s seaside ice cream shop is anything but sweet.
After the tragic death of her Irish twin sister, Bella, Anna needed a radical change. So, she closed her counseling practice in Boston to embark on a new adventure as an ice cream shop owner.
Now all she wants is to settle into her new town, attempt to turn her black thumb green, and build her ice cream shop into a community hub that hosts quality entertainment and group gatherings – just like Bella had often fantasized about doing before her fateful boating accident.
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(A Seaside Ice Cream Shop Mysteries)
Missing … and Presumed Dead
by Michael Fleeman
Rating: 4.0 #ad
The grand opening of Anna McBride’s seaside ice cream shop is anything but sweet.
The disappearance of the beautiful, vivacious hostess at a popular Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, restaurant made international headlines and triggered a sweeping high-stakes investigation that exposed a twisted web of deception, betrayal, sexual obsession, police corruption, and revenge. But Heather’s body was never located. A series of sensational trials involving a handsome restaurant coworker and his Disneyland-obsessed wife resulted in shocking verdicts – but no body – as her family desperately sought closure and fought for justice, and a resort town struggled to regain calm.
The Manor
by Marie Wilkens
Rating: 4.4 #ad
For Harriet Green, music is as vital to life as breathing. Waitress by day to help pay the bills, she sings every night in the New Orleans French Quarter. Approached by a stranger, Harriet learns of her estranged father’s death and the fortune she is set to inherit with enough money to pursue her music career full time. But not long after her first night in Bluebelle Manor, Harriet finds herself wandering the halls past midnight, playing mysterious melodies on the grand piano. Something is calling to her, and the secrets they whisper in her ear are frightening and dangerous.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Itch of Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A well-dressed man killed at a demolition site, at night in a snow storm.
Izzie Di Sante loves a challenge and Chance Corcoran’s murder sparks her curiosity. While managing the day-to-day business of the family restaurant, she searches for some connection between the victim and the site of the future Elite Townhomes. A co-worker of the victim disappears, the foreperson of the construction site is injured, and someone’s after Izzie. As her sister, Chloe, prepares for an Easter buffet like none other, Izzie needs to put the pieces together before it’s too late.
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(Izzie Di Sante Mysteries)
The Secret of Chimneys
by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4.3 #ad
International intrigue leads to murder at an English manor house in this classic mystery introducing the detection skills of Superintendent Battle.
Never do favors—that’s the lesson it would’ve behooved Anthony Cade to learn before getting himself wrapped up in a case of conspiracy and murder. Politician George Lomax has persuaded Lord Caterham to host a weekend party at Chimneys, his country estate. Lomax hopes to cement plans to reinstate the monarchy in Herzegovina. But when the prince of Herzegovina turns up dead, Cade has a lot of explaining to do. After all, his footprints were found on the grounds . . . though not inside the house.
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(Superintendent Battle Mysteries)
Intent: Return of Evil
by Krista Wagner
Rating: 3.8 #ad
Someone won’t let them forget that dreadful night. . .
It’s been eleven years since the nightmare ended, when Raylee and Crystal were nearly killed by someone they trusted. The small peaceful town of Silver Canyon is back to normal. Happily married to Paul, Raylee now runs a successful business, with Crystal as her manager. Life is good. Until Raylee receives a note: “Fate has opened another door, this time for us.”
Fate. The same word the killer used in that long-ago nightmare. Raylee and Crystal become shaken, their faith rattled, as they both are bombarded with clues from that terrible past.
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(Small Town Secrets Mysteries)
Ominous
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush, Rosalind Noonan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
NO WARNING In the photograph, three teenaged girls splash in the lake on a sweltering summer evening. Shiloh, Kat, and Ruth are unaware of the man who spies on them from the woods. They have no idea how their lives will be changed by the brutal violence that follows—and the vow of secrecy they take.
CAN PREPARE YOU Fifteen years later, Ruth and Shiloh have both returned to Prairie Creek, Wyoming, where Kat is deputy sheriff. Though they’ve tried to leave their shared past behind, each has the feeling that someone is lurking in the shadows. When a local girl vanishes, Kat is convinced there’s a connection to that long-ago night. But as the friends unite to find the missing teenager, a killer sends a chilling message. FOR A KILLER’S VENGEANCE
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(The Wyoming Mysteries)
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the 20th century, Elric is the brooding, albino emperor of the dying Kingdom of Melnibone. With Melnibone’s years of grandeur and decadence long since passed, Elric’s amoral cousin Yrkoon sets his eyes on the throne. Elric, realizing he is his country’s best hope, must face his nefarious cousin in an epic battle for the right to rule.
Elric of Melnibone is the first in Michael Moorcock’s incredible series, which created fantasy archetypes that have echoed through the genre for generations.
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(The Elric Saga)
The Ursulina
by Brian Freeman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this gripping prequel to his Edgar Award finalist and New York Times bestseller The Deep, Deep Snow, Brian Freeman takes us on Rebecca’s dark journey to reveal the truth about the Ursulina … a journey that ultimately leads to an excruciating choice that will change her life forever.
The mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti.
In Black Wolf County, he’s called … the Ursulina.
The Fate of Mercy Alban
by Wendy Webb
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.
Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace’s aunt disappeared without a trace…
Bound By Blood
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
At ten years old, Austin was in over his head. He only joined the Confederate Army because his brothers told him to, but then they went and got themselves killed. If not for Dwight Crawford, a Union soldier, Austin would have died alongside them.
From that day on, Dwight became Austin’s hero, friend, and father. Years later, they’re still fighting together, but the enemy has changed.