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?
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.