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)
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)