Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Far Gone
by Danielle Girard
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a North Dakota couple is shot down in their home in cold blood, the sleepy town of Hagen wakes with a jolt. After all, it’s usually such a peaceful place. But Detective Kylie Milliard knows better.
Despite not handling a homicide investigation in years, Kylie is on the case. A drop of blood found at the scene at first blush promises to be her best evidence. But it ultimately only proves that someone else witnessed the murder—and the results are shocking: the DNA reveals a familial match to a crime involving local nurse Lily Baker from over a decade ago.
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(White Out)
The KATE HUNTINGTON Mysteries Collection I
by Kassandra Lamb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A three-book bundle, plus a fun bonus novella set at Christmas time.
A psychotherapist whose passion for helping others often lands her in trouble…
MULTIPLE MOTIVES
ILL-TIMED ENTANGLEMENTS
FAMILY FALLACIES
And a bonus novella ~ An Unsaintly Season in St. Augustine
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(The Kate Huntington Mysteries Collections)
Live to Tell
by Lisa Gardner
Rating: 4.6 #ad
On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye.
Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and her partner show up at the facility, Danielle immediately realizes: It has started again.
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(D.D. Warren Mysteries)
Quantrall Box Set
by Carolina Mac
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Cowboy justice for hire. Jesse Quantrall, Texas oil magnate and renowned horse breeder, launches a new career in criminal investigation. Follow the lives of Jesse and his brothers in this action-packed western P.I. series.
“What a fantastic start to a new series. Plenty of action, so weird romance and very hot cowboys. What’s not to like. Next one please.” by Amazon Customer
ONLY OUR DESTINY
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). Up to 85 per cent of Italian Americans have their roots in this region. The story of the Coriello family begins in the fictional fishing village of Punto Roccioso along the Amalfi Coast. Alta Italia (Northern Italy) looks down on their southern countrymen as uneducated peasants. With limited opportunities available, many southern Italians dream of escaping poverty by leaving the land they love for a better life in America. But like all dreams, hardships, sacrifices, and realities intrude.
Having lived through World War I, the Spanish Flu, the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, and racial laws, Raffaela must raise and feed her ten children without any help from her estranged abusive husband Giuseppe, who refuses to give her money. With the support of her two oldest children, Geno, and Luisa, she struggles to survive. World War II devastates Italy and Italian Americans alike when “Il Duce” joins Hitler’s side, leaving Italians vulnerable at home and the object of hatred abroad.
The Saboteurs
by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Detective Isaac Bell’s wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda–one involving the nearly-constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see its completion.
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(An Isaac Bell Adventure Mysteries)
Desperation in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.8 #ad
New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who’d been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two – but they’d been equally desperate.
Unfortunately, they didn’t get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured, terrified, and wandering the streets of New York, and Mina lies dead near the waterfront while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene.
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(In Death Mysteries)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Sleep Like a Baby
by Charlaine Harris
Rating: 4.5 #ad
With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe’s mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. Virginia proves to be especially helpful when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu.
One particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere to be found. Roe’s brother Philip helps her search the house and they happen upon a body outside… but it isn’t Virginia’s.
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(Aurora Teagarden Mysteries)
A Savage Kultur
by Monique Roy
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Ava, a Jewish art student at Oxford University in England, receives a heart-wrenching letter from her grandfather after he dies. From the letter, she discovers that her grandfather has left her his London art gallery, which he says will secure her future, as well as provide a place for her to grow her artistic talents and follow her passion for art. The letter also describes his one last wish—that she recover a treasured Vincent van Gogh painting, The Lovers: The Poet’s Garden IV, that belonged to her grandparents and was deemed degenerate and looted by the Nazis in 1937.
Arriving for the first time at the gallery, she discovers old photographs in a secret room that recount the harrowing past—a Nazi propaganda parade in 1937. She quickly becomes aware that the room and the gallery, with an empty frame for the missing van Gogh, hold such rich memories of her grandparents…
Mission: Irresistible and Kade Collection
by Sharon Sala, Delores Fossen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Irresistible by New York Times Bestselling Author Sharon Sala: Agent Alicia Corbin has her toughest assignment yet: persuade SPEAR operative East Kirby to return to the field as her partner in order to help catch a traitor. Getting emotionally involved with the sexy loner was not part of her plan—until East invaded her heart! Now Alicia is determined to make her mission a success…and East a partner for life.
FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!
Kade by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Delores Fossen: For three months, Kade Ryland had posed as Bree Winston’s husband while the two FBI agents investigated adoptions and surrogates at the Fulbright Fertility Clinic. Nine months later, a baby—his baby—was dropped at his feet, and Bree disappeared.
Irine Wicklow: Bounty Hunter
by Laura Strickland
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A brand new adventure in a new series from Laura Strickland!
Rine and Jus are after a madman who has been terrorizing the lumber camps all along the Payette River, a seven-foot-tall lumberjack with a giant axe. Nobody knows why Dag Olafson, a former legend at the Wind River Camp, has run amok, but authorities believe Wolverine’s the man—or as Jus knows, woman—to bring him in. Spooked, Jus wishes Rine would turn down the job. But every time he says so, she suggests he go home to Kentucky, and his heart won’t let him.
There are a lot of things Rine doesn’t like about this job. The temptation Jus presents when they’re alone on the trail. The way the pretty daughter of the lumber camp manager makes eyes at him. The seven-foot-tall ghost with the axe.
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(Irine Wicklow: Bounty Hunter Mysteries)
Last of the Magpies
by Mark Edwards
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Winner of the Most Elusive Villain award at the Dead Good Readers Awards 2019
Twelve months ago, Jamie Knight walked straight into Lucy Newton’s trap. Both Jamie and his ex-wife Kirsty barely survived. Now, with the police investigation into Lucy’s disappearance going nowhere, Jamie teams up with a true crime podcaster to track down his nemesis.
But can Jamie persuade Kirsty to help? Can Kirsty forgive him for his past mistakes? And who, if anyone, will survive the final showdown? Featuring extracts from Lucy’s secret memoir, Last of the Magpies brings the trilogy to a shocking conclusion.
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(The Magpies Mysteries)
The Whitby Murders
by J. R. Ellis
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A murder with three witnesses. But one of them doesn’t believe what she saw…
Halloween, Whitby. DCI Jim Oldroyd’s daughter Louise is in town with friends for a goth festival. But their visit to an escape room ends in bloody murder when one of the group stabs his girlfriend and flees the scene. It’s a crime with three witnesses—but Louise refuses to take what she saw at face value.
Oldroyd and DS Carter are called in to solve the case, assisted from the sidelines by Louise. But the closer they investigate, the more complex the web of deceit appears. This is no straightforward crime of passion.
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(A Yorkshire Murder Mysteries)
Hazards of Time Travel
by Joyce Carol Oates
Rating: 3.7 #ad
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates
“Time travel” – and its hazards – are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America – “Wainscotia, Wisconsin” – that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation” – but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating.