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.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Buried in a Good Book
by Tamara Berry
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Tess’s recent divorce, but they’ve barely made it through the door when an explosion shakes the cabin. Suddenly it’s raining fish guts and…is that a human arm?
Tess was hardly convincing Gertie that a summer without Wi-Fi and running water would be an adventure. Now she’s thrust into a murder investigation, neighbors are saying they’ve spotted Bigfoot in the woods near her cabin, and the local sheriff is the spitting image of her character Detective Gabriel Gonzales—something he’s less than thrilled about. With so much more than her daughter’s summer plans at stake, it’s up to Tess to solve this case before anyone else gets hurt.
Walking Shadows
by Faye Kellerman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a resident of the neighboring town of Hamilton, had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time, and attended community college. But as Detective Peter Decker learns, the clean-cut kid is linked to the criminal world. When Brady was a baby, his father, Brandon Gratz, was convicted of robbing and killing the owners of a local jewelry store. While Gratz and his partner, Kyle Masterson, admitted to the robbery, they swore they left the owners, Glen and Lydia Levine, very much alive.
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(Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Mysteries)
Hide and Seek
by James Patterson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The world’s favorite singer is on trial for murdering a glamorous athlete . . . but in a ruthless world of power and privilege, life and death aren’t what they seem.
It was the trial that electrified the world. Not just because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world’s heart. Not just because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world’s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two…
Locked In Collection
by Creston Mapes
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In this engrossing sample book, Christian thriller author Creston Mapes offers the first three chapters from book one of each three of his popular Christian suspense series: Rock Star Chronicles, The Crittendon Files, and the Signs of Life Series.
“Signs of Life by Creston Mapes plunges the reader into the middle of an all-too-familiar mass shooting scenario. What makes this novel different is the protagonist’s very real issue of a right or wrong response. The multi-layered characters and all too real situations made this a novel I couldn’t put down!” Colleen Coble, USAToday bestselling author
The Stranger at the Door
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 5.0 #ad
She knocked on his door. He never should have answered.
As newly appointed chief of police, Mark Friessen is settling into his small-town role when he uncovers the twisted tale of a woman forced to marry the man who killed her family.
When the woman goes looking for help, knocking on his door, Mark and Billy Jo are thrust into a web of lies that tests their own complex relationship, as they discover secrets in the couple’s shadowy past that could drive a wedge between them for good.
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(Billy Jo McCabe Mysteries)
The God’s Eye View
by Barry Eisler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Knowledge is power…and they know everything.
NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe.
Evelyn Gallagher doesn’t care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA’s camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash.
The Berkeley Square Affair
by Teresa Grant
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In 1817 London, a stolen treasure may hold a clue to a ghastly crime: “Page-turning suspense and a fascinating mystery . . . Masterful.” —Deborah Crombie, New York Times–bestselling author of A Bitter Feast
Ensconced in the comfort of their elegant home in London’s Berkeley Square, Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch are no longer subject to the perilous life of intrigue they led during the Napoleonic Wars. Once an Intelligence Agent, Malcolm is now a Member of Parliament, and Suzanne is one of the city’s most sought-after hostesses. But a late-night visit from a friend who’s been robbed may lure them back into the dangerous world they thought they’d left behind . . .
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(Malcolm & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mysteries)
Birth Days
by Mindy R. Levy
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A veteran midwife shares inspiring journeys of birthing women who labor to transform their traumas into positive and healing experiences.
The connection between childbirth and trauma is not readily apparent or easily understood. The link between the birthing experience and our potential to change, grow and heal is even less so.
Birth Days weaves together the knowledge that world-renowned midwife Mindy Levy accumulated while caring for hundreds of pregnant women for three decades. She was present at their births, witnessed their struggles and basked in the warm light of their victories.