Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Dark Horse
by Gregg Hurwitz
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Gregg Hurwitz’s New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.
Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission–The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn’t interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.
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(Orphan X Mysteries)
City of the Dead
by Jonathan Kellerman
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead.
Early one morning, the two of them find themselves in a neighborhood of pretty houses, pretty cars, and pretty people. The scene they encounter is anything but. A naked young man lies dead in the street, the apparent victim of a collision with a moving van hurtling through suburbia in the darkness. But any thoughts of accidental death vanish when a blood trail leads to a nearby home.
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(An Alex Delaware Mysteries)
Origin
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Twenty years before the events of the first book, Leavenshome Farm seems like the perfect place for a young family. But when tragedy strikes, the Collins family are forced to live through an impossible horror.
Still struggling with grief following the death of her sister, Connie Collins can tell that her parents’ marriage is falling apart. When she starts to notice strange things happening in the house, she initially keeps quiet. Soon, however, she comes to realize that her sister’s ghost is trying to get through to her.
But what else is lurking in the shadows of the farmhouse?
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(Bait Mysteries)
Not a Happy Family
by Shari Lapena
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can’t protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.
Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful mother, but perhaps one of the siblings is more disturbed than anyone knew. Did someone snap after that dreadful evening? Or did another person appear later that night with the worst of intentions?
The Long Call
by Ann Cleeves
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.
Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
Turn Coat
by Jim Butcher
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry is thought of as either a black sheep or a sacrificial lamb. And none hold him in more disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules. But now, Morgan is in trouble. He’s been accused of cold-blooded murder—a crime with only one, final punishment.
He’s on the run, wanting his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. So it’s up to Harry to uncover a traitor within the Council, keep Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself.
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(The Dresden Files Mysteries)
Worth Dying For
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades old, that Reacher can’t let go.
The Duncans want Reacher gone – and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late – and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
A Hare-Raising Haunting
by C.K. Fyfe
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When Emma purchases a rustic train depot in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she expects the station to be steeped in history, not mystery. She and her rabbit Pepper settle into their new life in the woods, but they aren’t exactly alone—a specter from a long-gone past seems intent on haunting them.
Is Emma’s imagination running wild, or is she chugging down a dangerous track?
Relentless Rebels
by Sharon René
Rating: 5.0 #ad
After rescuing their kidnapped friends and stopping the government from assassinating Councilor Sierra Stone, Jordan and Team Seven thought the fight was over, but the real battle is just beginning. Sierra must now try to regain her role in the Global Collective Council while also convincing them that River Wallis, co-chair of the Council, tried to kill her. But her success could very well lead to a civil war.
The Council will do everything in their power to stop Sierra, including killing her allies. Barely surviving an attack on their mountain hideaway, Jordan and Team Seven’s lives are on the line. Again…
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(Divine Destiny Chronicles)
The Reunion
by Jana DeLeon
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A bodyguard has his work cut out for him protecting a headstrong heiress in this classic tale from New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon.
Bodyguard to an heiress is Tyler Duhan’s idea of hell. The steely, sexy ex-marine has heard—and dismissed – the gossip about the haunted old LeBeau mansion and its “cursed” heiresses. Now the middle sibling – headstrong Joelle – has arrived to comply with her mother’s will and reunite with her long-lost sisters.
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(Mystere Parish: Family Inheritance Mysteries)
Bryant & May
by Christopher Fowler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When ninety-one-year-old Amelia Hoffman dies in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system.
But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs. Hoffman was once a government security expert, though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed.
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(Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries)
The Forever Stone
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The paperweight—a summons to courage . . . A new home, new love, new fears . . . and a mystery. How will she face the challenge? And what does God have in mind? ~ Madeleine, a young widow, is determined to break free from her paralyzing memories and controlling family. The paperweight, a gift from her father, spurs her to declare independence, and she joins her aunt’s house-restoration project in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Two men enter her life, bringing joy, conflict, and danger. She’ll need courage to fight the treachery she discovers, and faith to step into a new life of promise. Can she do it?
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(The Dumont Chronicles Mysteries)
IRON
by Madisyn Carlin
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Enforcing justice comes with a price.
Detective Redwyn “Red” Deathan will stop at nothing to uncover those behind the ruthless kidnappings of multiple children. But things are not as they seem, and Red’s efforts are thwarted at every turn. With each discovery the danger grows, putting Red and the lives of those she cares about at risk. Can she reveal the mastermind’s identity before she herself becomes a target?
Ritzy Vincent Peak
by Talla L. Lynn
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Four couples. Four never been released stories. Four happily ever afters. Join Nash and Sarah as they navigate around loss, restoration, and a hoard of naughty pets to find their prize in a sea of mess.
Royce and Lanie as they set aside their cherished, hard-earned plans to embrace the gifts neither of them thought they wanted, until they had the little nuggets.
Travis and Faith as they fight past demons that want to destroy them, while they blaze through crazy land minds of love and attraction to attain the peace they both desperately crave.
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“Reads like a collaboration between Charlaine Harris and James Lee Burke.”
In the most haunted city on earth, the police can’t afford to disregard the supernatural. When N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia realizes voodoo is involved in a spate of panhandler murders, he turns to someone he knows who can help him – Wyatt Thomas, the French Quarter’s favorite private investigator. Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, Wyatt’s partner, is also a Tulane University English professor. Together, they form the most potent paranormal partnership in the Big Easy. If you have problems involving magic, voodoo, ghosts, witches, werewolves, shifters, the occult, or the supernatural, Wyatt and Mama are adept at paranormal investigation and the ones to call.