Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
A Deadly Shade of Gold
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins as a simple matchmaking scheme soon becomes a bloody chase that takes McGee to Mexico, a beautiful country from which he hopes to return alive.
Deception. Betrayal. Heartbreak. When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised…
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(A Travis McGee Mysteries)
Keeper of Scales
by Anne Mollova
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A princess with a secret. An ancient evil rising. A kingdom caught in the balance.
For centuries, the Trianid has kept the kingdom of Dúramair peaceful and prosperous. Formed by Dúramair’s greatest warrior, an abbess who weaves visions of the future, and the Keeper of Scales, a healer gifted with Sight of the faerie realm, the Trianid has passed on its wisdom and responsibilities generation after generation to its carefully sought and selected apprentices.
Alyen, crown princess of Dúramair, has trained her whole life to be queen. She’s kept her Sight a secret, trusting that the Keeper of Scales will find an apprentice soon—for surely one other candidate can be found. But when news comes from the north of dark magic returning to Dúramair, Alyen is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. A decision that could determine the fate of her kingdom.
The Long Way Home
by Louise Penny
Rating: 4.5 #ad
While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache’s help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. “There’s power enough in Heaven,” he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, “to cure a sin-sick soul.” And then he gets up. And joins her.
Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow.
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(A Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries)
Sovereign
by C. J. Sansom
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London.
Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they’ve been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
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(Matthew Shardlake Mysteries)
Welcome to Nevermore Bookshop Collection
by Steffanie Holmes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
What do you get when you cross a cursed bookshop, three hot fictional men, and a punk rock heroine nursing a broken heart?
You get the Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries – where all your book boyfriends come to life.
When Mina Wilde’s ex-best friend shows up dead with a knife in her back, she’ll have to solve the murder if she wants to clear her name. Will Heathcliff, Moriarty and Quoth the Raven be able to keep her out of prison?
More importantly, will she be able to keep her hands off the three fictional men who’ve taken up residence in her bookshop… and her heart.
Finding Dolly
by Jesse Storm
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The blanket of snow covers the state of Colorado as Hudson Owens stands in front of his mother’s fresh grave. It is supposed to be a simple affair after which Hudson would travel back to his home town and carry on with his life.
As Hudson rides through a snow storm and into the town of Ashcroft, he notices a commotion at the sheriff’s office. It turns out that a stagecoach has just been robbed by a gang led by Johnny Daggers, a notorious outlaw of the state. One of the victims involved is a woman called Dolly Miller who had cared for Hudson’s mother before her recent death.
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(Western Justice Adventures)
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Sip & Save Club Murders
by Mary Maxwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Deliveries are a frequent occurrence at Sky High Pies in Crescent Creek, Colorado. The continuous flow of items includes fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, dairy products and paper goods. But when a mysterious package appears one morning at the bakery-café, it leads to questions, confusion and—within a matter of hours—a pair of homicides that confound the local authorities.
Since Sky High is her family’s business and Kate Reed is a former private investigator, the police recruit her to help find the killer. As she searches for evidence and suspects, Kate discovers that the strange delivery is connected to a long-ago financial scandal as well as allegations of bribery and judicial corruption.
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(Sky High Pies Cozy Mysteries)
Eight Miles High
by D. B. Borton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
World War II veteran pilot Toots Magruder survived sabotage, criminal negligence, slander, and friendly fire during the war before crash landing her plane in the middle of a suburban Fourth of July picnic. But two of her former WASP cohorts have recently died and now she appears to be next on the killer’s hit list.
Can detective Cat Caliban and her partner Moses Fogg catch the murderer before another plane goes down? Can Cat survive two plane rides, a parachute jump, and a round of golf?
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(The Cat Caliban Mysteries Mysteries)
Night Chills
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“An early D. Koontz work. Listed as re-issued in the 80’s, the copyright is actually ©1976. Going back that far was very entertaining, since I had never read this one. The novel is clearly written in a different, more descriptive way, clearly showing his evolution in style. I miss the more basic style evident in this book.
The plot revolves around subliminal mind control, which has been done before. It hasn’t been done this well.
A bit of caution. There is graphic violence and language throughout. If you feel that a turnoff, you may want to pass on this; if you don’t mind it, the novel is an earlier written winner.” by Amazon Customer
Laser Trap
by Frank DiBianca
Rating: 4.7 #ad
If you can’t invent it, steal it!
Engineering grad student Dan Butler discovers an unorthodox way to produce lasers of unprecedented power. When the malevolent bosses at StarWay Labs, who sell weapons to the international underworld, discover this, they kidnap Dan and demand he replicate his work in their secret lab.
Dan’s fellow grad student, Lana Madison, who Dan had hired to help him find a girlfriend, is alarmed at his disappearance. She forms a high-tech team with four of their friends to help the authorities rescue Dan. They make remarkable breakthroughs in tracking down his whereabouts while the criminal cadre at StarWay pushes Dan close to his breaking point.
The Rogue Queen
by Emily R. King
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the explosive third volume of The Hundredth Queen Series, the queen of fire faces off against a demon of ice.
Despite the odds, Kalinda has survived it all: Marriage to a tyrant. Tournaments to the death. The forbidden power to rule fire. The icy touch of a demon.
That same demon now disguises itself as Rajah Tarek, Kalinda’s late husband and a man who has never stopped haunting her. Upon taking control of the palace and the army, the demon brands Kalinda and her companions as traitors to the empire. They flee across the sea, seeking haven in the Southern Isles.
APOCALYPSE ONLINE
by Robyn Wideman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
At first everyone thought it was a game…
But aliens have arrived and they are turning people into fertilizer.
Brad and Sam are gamers and when they started playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online they had no idea that the game was a preview of reality! With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, our heroes will have a chance to survive the apocalypse. They just have to survive, level up and find other survivors.
Jake is no gamer. But when he finds out aliens have arrived, he’ll do anything to protect his little sister Sam.
Will they be able to grow strong enough for the second wave or will they become alien plant food?
Carrie
by David Culp
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Carrie Larsen spent the early ‘60s searching in the counterculture of the Great American West.
Until she got tired.
In the Spring of 1967 she came home to her parents’ now-empty nest in Ohio, maybe just for a visit. It was where she’d been raised by her loving family as a small-town girl.
She calls herself “a Buddhist, not a Romantic.”
Carrie loves her parents as long as they last, though she resists her mother’s hopes that she get married and have children, not necessarily in that order. When not busy at the Veterinary Clinic on Main Street, Carrie spends a lot of time balancing her enthusiasm for sex, drugs, and rock and roll with compassion, a sense of justice, and hours of playing J.S. Bach on her mother’s Concert Grand Piano.