Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Prepper Jack
by Diane Capri
Rating: 4.5 #ad
FBI Special Agent Kim Otto receives a kidnapper’s cryptic message in the middle of the night. The Hunt for Jack Reacher turns personal when the victims have a tenuous connection to Reacher… …and a stronger connection to her.
Innocent preppers are caught in the fallout as ruthless cartels battling for American drug dollars seek to devastate the community and destroy the people who live there.
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(The Hunt for Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Into FaerLand
by A.J. Ponder
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“We never steal children. We only swap them. An eye for an eye, a child for a child.”
Aiden must retrieve the Sword Master from demon territory. The mission doesn’t go entirely to plan, and Aiden falls dangerously in love with the Swordsmaster, Keera. She’s pretty as a fae, and a strong, graceful fighter.
With every movement she makes, he falls harder. Keera and Aiden both ignore the warnings, marry, and have two beautiful daughters. Meanwhile, Keera’s swords, forged with cold iron, and adorned with silver and gold, have angered the fae – and most especially King Hades and Persephone who rule FaerLand.
The King of Shadows
by Robert McCammon
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In the year 1704, Matthew Corbett is about to go up against an antagonist completely different from any he has faced before. On a trip to Italy to track down Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro, Matthew and Hudson Greathouse find themselves marooned on a beautiful island known as Golgotha—a place that hides a multitude of secrets and puts both of them at terrible risk.
The islanders welcome them with a massive feast—but as the island pulls them deeper into its influence, the castaways struggle to maintain their grip on reality, even their very identity. Matthew must keep his wits about him and solve the mystery enshrouding the other side of the island, where an active volcano looms and an elusive creature lurks…
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(The Matthew Corbett Mysteries)
The Union Street Bakery
by Mary Ellen Taylor
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Suddenly without a job or a boyfriend, Daisy now lives in the attic above her family’s store, the Union Street Bakery, while she learns the business. It doesn’t help that, as the only adopted daughter, her relationship with her sisters has never been easy.
When an elderly customer dies, Daisy is surprised to inherit a journal from the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie. As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family—and her own heritage—than she ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to “find her,” she is compelled to explore the past more deeply.
Hanging Hill
by Mo Hayder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
On a picture-perfect morning in Bath, England, a teenage girl’s body is found on the towpath of a canal. Police detective Zoe Benedict is convinced the department head should look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the brutal murder case. But no one wants to hear any far-fetched ideas from the department’s black sheep.
Meanwhile, Zoe’s sister, Sally, has started working as a housekeeper for a wealthy entrepreneur whose eccentricities are beginning to seem increasingly repugnant, and possibly dangerous. As Zoe digs into the case and Sally’s suspicions grow, all signs point to one conclusion: There’s something very wrong at the house on Hanging Hill.
Raylan
by Elmore Leonard
Rating: 4.4 #ad
With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that’s chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you—especially when it’s sold off piece by piece.
So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn’t your average marshal; he’s the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who’s making the cuts, he’s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.
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(Raylan Givens Mysteries)
Citadel
by Marko Kloos
Rating: 4.6 #ad
An interplanetary battle is renewed in an epic novel of a warring solar system by the author of Ballistic.
The war should have been over. But it’s not for a group of nationalists grabbing for control.
It’s been two weeks since a missile with a nuclear warhead tore through the planetary defenses in the most blistering large-scale attack ever committed in the history of the Gaia system. Commander Dunstan Park of the Rhodian navy has been handpicked to command an experimental cruiser that could dictate the course of the escalating conflict. All he has to do is keep the ship from falling into the wrong hands.
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(The Palladium Wars Mysteries)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Batter Off Dead
by Maddie Day
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Robbie and her new husband Abe O’Neill are enjoying a summer evening in the park with fellow townsfolk excited for some Friday night fireworks. In attendance are senior residents from Jupiter Springs Assisted Living including Roy Bird, father to South Lick’s very own Police Lieutenant Buck Bird. Despite his blindness, Roy is a member of his group home’s knitting circle, spending quality time with some lovely ladies.
But when the lightshow ends, one of the knitters who sat with Roy is found dead, a puncture wound in her neck. The poor woman’s death echoes that of Buck’s mother and Roy’s wife—an unsolved homicide.
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(A Country Store Mysteries)
The Last One Home
by Victoria Helen Stone
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her damaged mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren’s father to prison for murder years ago. After a serial killer’s confession to the crime restored justice, Lauren chose to live with her father and grandmother. Now an adult, Lauren has come home to the Sacramento family estate for good, her mother’s lies be damned…
It’s been decades since Donna made her cheating boyfriend pay, but she hasn’t forgotten the past. She knows her estranged daughter has made a terrible mistake by returning to the estate. There’s more to the story of the welcoming old homestead—and her childhood—than Lauren knows.
Northwest Counter: The Complete Series
by Lisa Phillips
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The complete series. All five books in one collection.
Book 1: First Wave: When a young woman’s body is discovered, everything points to a local militia…
Book 2: Second Chance: Niall’s case points to a research college hiding more secrets than the local police…
Book 3: Third Hour: Before anything can happen, the NSA analyst is implicated in a cyber-crime..
Book 4: Fourth Day: A dead woman returns. The trap is set…
Book 5: Final Stand: A vendetta. The biggest case of her life…
The Fourth Horseman
by Sarah Woodbury
Rating: 4.6 #ad
May 1144. Newly wedded, Gareth and Gwen travel across the border into England on a diplomatic mission with Prince Hywel of Wales. Within moments of their arrival, however, the mission goes awry and a murder case drops (literally) at their feet.
Hindered at every turn by a climate of civil war and constantly shifting political alliances, Gareth and Gwen race to solve the murder and expose a plot that threatens not only their lives, but the life of the future King of England himself.
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(The Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mysteries)
The Stranger Inside
by Lisa Unger
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When former journalist Rain Winter was twelve years old, she narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend’s house. The abductor was eventually found and sent to prison, but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice–and killed him in cold blood.
Now Rain is living the perfect suburban life, spending her days as a stay-at-home mom. But when another criminal who escaped justice is found dead, Rain is unexpectedly drawn into the case, forced to revisit memories she’s worked hard to leave behind. Is there a vigilante at work? Who is the next target? Why can’t Rain just let it go?
Shifters MateDate Agency
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Get ready to lose yourself in these six steamy stories featuring irresistible shifters. Binge read and find out how they claim their mates and get their HEAs against all odds. Love isn’t easy, but these men will never back down.
Book 1: Wolf Daddy MateDate
Book 2: Hero Bear’s MateDate
Book 3: Dragon’s Fated MateDate
Book 4: Lion’s Second Chance MateDate
Book 5: Billionaire Wolf’s MateDate
Book 6: Wolf’s Fake Marriage MateDate
In Common
by Norma Watkins
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family’s popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel, yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes.
Velma Vernon accepts life on a small, struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents’ hard life. Alone, she leaves for the city and triumphs, not as a wife, but by being the best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office.