Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Tall Tales & Witchy Fails
by Lily Harper Hart
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Splat. That’s the sound Hali Waverly made when she hit the pavement after a drunken billionaire ran her over with his golf cart.
Cha-ching. That’s the sound her bank account made when his handlers got him under control and swooped in to buy Hali off. The offer? Ownership of a tiki bar on the property of a busy resort and lodging in one of the villas on St. Pete Beach.
Now Hali is officially successful. That doesn’t mean her life is a beach of roses. When private investigator Grayson “Gray” Hunter shows up asking questions about a missing woman, Hali is evasive. It’s not because she doesn’t want to help as much as she’s already running her own investigation with the help of her best friend, another witch, and a group of sirens who control the beach.
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(A Witch on the Rocks Cozy Mysteries)
Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude who she hasn’t seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy.
Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless.
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(Stephanie Plum Mysteries)
Special Agent Hunter
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded with tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four.
Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that earn everyone’s respect.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
Child of Light
by Terry Brooks
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Cora Taylor isn’t expecting the cop who’d haunted her dreams for ten years to return and find her drunk, wearing a torn wedding dress, and surrounded with tiny, white puppies. Go figure her rotten luck. The last time they’d met, she’d been a sweet-looking rookie too fearful to shoot a killer who ended up later murdering a family of four.
Guilt from that night changed her into a speed demon, a hardened detective with colorful language… in fact a whole new persona. One who wears too much makeup, bleaches her short messy hair, and has developed many professional skills that earn everyone’s respect.
Prague Fatale
by Philip Kerr
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Berlin, 1941. Bernie is back from the Eastern Front, once again working homicide in Berlin’s Kripo and answering to Reinhard Heydrich, a man he both detests and fears. Heydrich has been newly named Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. Tipped off that there is an assassin in his midst, he orders Bernie to join him at his country estate outside Prague, where he has invited some of the Third Reich’s most odious officials to celebrate his new appointment. One of them is the would-be assassin. Bernie can think of better ways to spend a beautiful autumn weekend, but, as he says, “You don’t say no to Heydrich and live.”
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(A Bernie Gunther Mysteries)
The Royals: Witch Court: The complete series
by Megan Montero
Rating: 4.7 #ad
This box set includes all five books in The Witch Court Series and is over 1,000 pages of magic, epic romance, adventure, and twists you’ll never see coming! It’s time to claim my power… All my life I’ve lived under lock and key, always following the strict rules my mother set for me. A week before my sixteenth birthday I sneak out of my house and discover why. Turns out I am not just a normal teenager. I’m a witch blessed with a gift someone wants to steal from me. And not just anyone…the evil King Alataris. For a thousand years the people of Evermore have suffered under his tyranny. The Mark on my shoulder says I am the Siphon Witch, one of five Witch Queens fated to come together and finally destroy him.
Heartless Heroes: A Dark Romance Anthology
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Some heroes want to save the world. Some will burn it down for the one they love.
Call them villains, anti-heroes, criminals, and monsters.
But these dark men love deeply and fiercely, and are ready to go to the ends of the earth to save their soulmate.
They will tempt you. Captivate you. Drag you into darkness, and leave you breathless. They’ll show you how good love can be in the dark.
There’s a spark between these pages, and these Heartless Heroes will set your world on fire.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Blueberry Festival
by Darci Hannah
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival—including the pie-eating contest her bakery is hosting – is the highlight of the summer. But soon Beacon Harbor runs into a patch of trouble.
A local real estate agent gets pranked. A parade float gets pelted with water balloons. It’s all laughed off until the stunts start escalatinga – nd looking more like sabotage…
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(A Beacon Bakeshop Mysteries)
Mr. & Mrs. Platt
by Terry Toler
Rating: 4.6 #ad
WHAT COULD GO WRONG ON THEIR WEDDING NIGHT?
Mr. and Mrs. Platt are married at a big ceremony in Chicago. They spend their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of a five-star hotel in downtown Chicago. Robert Platt picks up his wife on the balcony to carry her over the threshold and back into their honeymoon suite. Instead, he tosses her over the railing and sends her plunging twenty-three stories to her death.
Homicide detective Cliff Ford is called to the scene. It’s inconceivable to him that a man would kill his bride on their honeymoon night. His skills are challenged as he must unlock the mystery behind a devious mind. A man who has killed before. And will kill again, if Cliff doesn’t stop him.
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(The Cliff Hangers Mysteries)
The Shadows of Men
by Abir Mukherjee
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Calcutta, 1923
When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force—Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant “Surrender-Not” Banerjee—track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath?
Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this remarkable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart?
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(Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries)
The Pursuit
by Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives on the FBI’s most-wanted list, has been kidnapped from a beachfront retreat in Hawaii. What the kidnapper doesn’t know is that Nick Fox has been secretly working for the FBI. It isn’t long before Nick’s covert partner, Special Agent Kate O’Hare, is in hot pursuit of the crook who stole her con man.
The trail leads to Belgium, France, and Italy, and pits Nick and Kate against their deadliest adversary yet: Dragan Kovic, an ex–Serbian military officer. He’s plotting a crime that will net him billions . . . and cost thousands of American lives.
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(A Fox and O’Hare Mysteries)
Ghost of a Chance
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A rainy night in east Texas leads to murder
When daring private detective Buck McDivit inherits his murdered aunt’s fishing camp on Caddo Lake, he quickly learns all isn’t right in this primordial paradise dripping with antebellum mystique. To retain his inheritance, he must take on a white supremacy group in the nearby racially-torn east Texas town of Deception. Will Buck prevail or become gator bait beneath the coffee-colored surface of the mysterious lake?
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(Paranormal Cowboy Mysteries)
Triptych
by Karin Slaughter
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael’ s lover before she became his enemy. But unbeknownst to both of them, another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer’s trail in the most coincidental of ways—and who may be the key to breaking the case wide open.
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(Will Trent Mysteries)
Bear Head
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: 4.6 #ad
WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS
Jimmy Martin has a sore head. He’s used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him. The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist. It also claims to be a bear. A bear named Honey.
Jimmy has nothing against bioforms – he’s one himself, albeit one engineered out of human stock – and works with them everyday in Hell City, building the future, staking mankind’s claim to a new world: Mars.
The problem is that humanity isn’t the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal.
The Secret of Life
by Dr. Zeev Gilkis
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Age doesn’t matter! If we live right, we don’t have to age!
Dr. Zeev Gilkis is a cancer survivor who began competing in triathlons and surfing waves in his sixties.
In a conversational style and a friendly manner, the author is sharing his secrets about living better and longer, while enjoying every moment!
You too can enjoy life more and achieve anything you dream of!
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(Younger Than Ever)