Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Cold Brew Corpse
by Tara Lush
Rating: 4.4 #ad
It’s a steamy September, and business is brisk at Perkatory, the hottest coffee shop in Devil’s Beach, FL. Much of the clientele pours in from Dante’s Inferno, the hot yoga studio next door. But the bright, sunny Gulf Coast days turn decidedly dark-roast when the body of the studio’s owner turns up in a nearby swamp.
Between running Perkatory and training Stanley, her golden Shih Tzu puppy, reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis is too busy to go sleuthing. But when the editor of the local paper asks her to write about the murder, Lana’s dreams of getting back into journalism start to percolate.
Murder at the Porte de Versailles
by Cara Black
Rating: 4.4 #ad
November 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of fear. For Aimée Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father’s death and her daughter’s third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory—and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée’s friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime with traces of explosives under his fingernails.
Aimée doesn’t believe Boris set the bomb. In an effort to prove this, she battles the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports…
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(An Aimée Leduc Investigation Mysteries)
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
The fantastic adventure of a brilliant young scientist and a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
A renowned scientist was orphaned at age eight and has grown to adulthood with no knowledge of his own ancestry. When he is awakened by an unusual visitor with an extremely urgent message it leads to events that topple everything he has believed about reality.
While still coming to terms with the unbelievable truth about his ancestry, he must defend the ancient Niergel (Near–ġ-el – Mysterious Secret) against brutal enemies. He is soon fighting a dangerous underworld Crime Syndicate and a powerful evil faction from his family’s past, along with a horde of disembodied offspring of fallen angels, known as the Eljo, who threaten the entire world.
In Name Only
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.6 #ad
No home. No family. No place to hide. For Summer Newcombe, that’s only the beginning.
The night Summer escapes from a burning Padre Island eatery and discovers the arsonist is stalking her, is the same night she meets Fire Captain Gabriel Duran. As much as she’s attracted to Gabe, five years in the Federal Witness Security Program because of her father’s testimony against a mob boss have taught her the importance of being alone and invisible.
No matter how much she yearns for a real home, Summer relinquished that option the night she killed the man who murdered her father. But Gabe breaks down her guard and places both of them in danger. Summer has vowed never to kill again, but she’s frantic she’ll cost Gabe his life unless she stops running and fights for the future she wants with the man she loves.
My Friend Richard : A True Ghost Story
by William Hart
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A close friend of mine, maybe the brightest student in our high school of four thousand, came to see me some years back. He came as a ghost with a favor to ask, renewing a friendship that continues a decade later.
Richard has the same immature young adult personality he had when he died in a Haight-Ashbury fire in 1970. But as a spirit he can travel very far very fast, appear and disappear at will, or shape-shift into a feisty moth. He enters locked homes to visit loved ones, sometimes projecting powerful images into their minds. Annoyed, he’s a smelly, destructive nuisance. Sometimes he’s affectionate.
Best-Kept Lies & A Father for Her Baby
by Lisa Jackson, B.J. Daniels
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Flesh and Blood
by Caroline Mitchell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A string of suicides. A community in terror. And a chilling conspiracy only DI Amy Winter can crack.
A wave of apparent suicides hits a string of seaside resorts, but when a police officer is named as the latest to die, DI Amy Winter suspects there may be more than mere coincidence to these tragic deaths. But what dark motive could cause someone to throw themselves into the cold depths of the North Sea?
Someone in the community knows more than they are letting on, but Amy’s questions are met with resistance. A group of mysterious teenagers might hold the key, but why are they so afraid to talk? Meanwhile, after the release from prison of her serial killer mother, Amy is fighting her own demons.
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(A DI Amy Winter Mysteries)
DBT Workbook For Teens
by Barrett Huang
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Unlock the power of Dialectal Behavior Therapy and arm your teen with the tools for emotional success with this complete workbook for managing anxiety, stress, fear, ADHD and more.
Specially crafted with a warm, heartfelt, and friendly tone, this practical book explores the proven benefits of Dialectal Behavior Therapy, along with how we can best equip today’s young people with the emotional tools they need to achieve balance, stability, and wellness in their lives. Drawing on a powerful mix of psychological insights, user-friendly advice, and fun worksheets to help young readers on their journey to a happier life, the DBT Workbook for Teens seeks to dispel the mysteries around DBT and provide parents and teens alike with an invaluable tool for personal and emotional growth.
Startide Rising
by David Brin
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A starship crew of humans and dolphins skirts the brink of interstellar war in this epic adventure by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Postman.
We are not alone. Humanity’s explorations have revealed galaxies inhabited by millions of intelligent species interacting under ancient traditions. Foremost among said traditions is uplift, which requires all spacefaring races to welcome newcomers into Galactic culture by breeding and genetically guiding each client species to full sapience – but at a price. Patron races demand centuries of indentured servitude from each uplifted client. But is upstart humanity a patron or a client?
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(The Uplift Saga Mysteries)
A Midnight Requiem Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When doors creak in darkened chambers and eerie sounds echo through the corridors. When the distant sounds of church bells signal the midnight hour — that is the time when spirits dwell, singing their spectral requiem for lost loves and beckoning the living with ghostly fingers… join us, join us….
Welcome to A Midnight Requiem: The Ghostly Hour!
Love haunted houses, ghostly graveyards, and spooky fun? Sixteen of your favorite historical romance authors have come together to bring you a collection of ghastly delight and spectral passion. Enjoy haunting love stories that will have you reading them again… and again.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Tides, Trails and Trouble
by Cindy Bell
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Suzie and Mary are excited to welcome a birdwatching group to Dune House, the majestic bed and breakfast on the beach. The guests are a colorful bunch and some of them have some unusual requests. They are hoping to sight a rare bird in the area. But tensions rise and tempers flare when they don’t see eye to eye with some surfers camping on the beach.
Then things go from bad to worse when someone lands up dead. With the suspect list getting longer, the police have their work cut out to find the murderer. Suzie and Mary, with a little help from their loveable Labrador, do some snooping to try and help the investigation along.
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(Dune House Cozy Mysteries)
A Test of Wills
by Charles Todd
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first novel to feature war-damaged Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge, A Test of Wills is the book that brought author Charles Todd into the spotlight. This Edgar® and Anthony Award-nominated, New York Times Notable mystery brilliantly evokes post-World War I Great Britain and introduces readers to one of crime fiction’s most compelling series protagonists. Here the shell-shocked Rutledge struggles to retain his fragile grip on sanity while investigating the death of a popular army colonel, murdered, it appears, by a decorated war hero with ties to the Royal Family.
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(Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries)
19 Yellow Moon Road
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A thrilling new book in the wildly popular series from the author of Hidden, legendary #1 New York Times bestseller Fern Michaels! The Sisterhood is reuniting to investigate The Haven, a suspicious spiritual organization that’s more dangerous cult than caring commune…
Maggie Spritzer’s nose for a story doesn’t just make her a top-notch newspaper editor, it also tells her when to go the extra mile for a friend. When she gets a strange message from her journalism pal, Gabby Richardson, Maggie knows her services are needed. Gabby has become involved with The Haven, a commune that promises to guide its members toward a more spiritually fulfilling life. But Gabby’s enthusiasm has turned to distrust ever since she was refused permission to leave the compound to visit her sick mother.
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(Sisterhood Mysteries)
Plain Dead
by Andy Maslen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Suicide or murder? DI Ford is sure there’s a killer to catch, but time is running out.
A young female soldier is found on Salisbury Plain, her throat cut and a bloody knife in her dead hand. Everyone assumes that she killed herself. But something doesn’t feel right to DI Ford; the whole scene seems staged. Convinced of foul play, and despite fierce opposition from the army brass and his own superiors, Ford launches a murder investigation.
Years on from his wife’s death, Ford is still struggling with guilt and whether or not to tell his son the truth about what really happened. When his CSI partner confronts him about the tragedy, he knows he has to confess sooner or later.
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(Detective Ford Mysteries)
Jack in the Green
by Diane Capri
Rating: 4.1 #ad
FBI Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar track Reacher’s past in Tampa where they team up with Judge Willa Carson, investigative journalist Jessica Kimball, and attorney Jennifer Lane. When Retired Army Colonel Thomas Weston returns to MacDill Air Force Base for a public event after sixteen years, he’s an easy target for his enemies, including Jack Reacher. The Hunt for Justice and the Hunt for Jack Reacher collide in this long-awaited follow up to Get Back Jack.
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(The Hunt for Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug called soma. And while sex is strongly encouraged, the old way of procreation is forbidden, eliminating even the pains of childbirth. But when a man and woman journey beyond these confines to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show.
Hope
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 3.6 #ad
Lee Decker didn’t believe in love, but he did believe in the power of a gun. Crime paid. Plain and simple. Then he met Naomi, and everything changed.
Only getting out of a gang like Curtis Blackwell’s isn’t easy. Ten years later, Blackwell is still looking for him. When he tries to make Lee’s daughters pay for his past, it’s time to stop running and start fighting.
Lee can’t change what he’s done, but with the help of a beautiful stranger named Helen, he can try and make things right. Opening his heart has never been easy, but he’d rather risk his life than risk losing her.
Can they stop Blackwell before he enacts his most treacherous plan yet?
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(Westward Saga Mysteries)
The Alien Bounty Hunters Complete Series
by Michele Mills
Rating: 4.7 #ad
One touch is all it takes…
Warning: Each story in this sci fi romance series contains a never-before-touched, seven-foot-tall alpha alien Bounty Hunter who remains unmated until the moment his bare claw accidentally clasps the palm of the human who is about to become his Bride. Each warrior is shocked to discover a female from this rare species is his fated mate.