Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Hair of the Dog
by Laurien Berenson
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The dog days of summer have just begun, and Melanie Travis is looking forward to savoring them. And where better to enjoy herself than at her Aunt Peg’s Fourth of July barbecue? It sounds ideal, until an uninvited guest proves that even the laziest dog day of the year can suddenly turn vicious.
Melanie knew someone should have kept Barry Turk on a short leash. The star poodle handler and ladykiller had a habit of chicanery that bred contempt in the dog show circuit, particularly among its female members. But when Barry is shot dead in his own driveway, even Melanie is stunned at how unsporting the competition can get.
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(A Melanie Travis Mysteries)
Jedidiah Taylor: Forging Of A Lawman
by Brayden C. Hawke
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Orphaned at a young age, Jedidiah Taylor is taken under the wing of kindhearted rancher William “Boss” Kingston and the denizens of his Double-A ranch. Before you know it, young Jedidiah has learned to ride and rope, to track and shoot. His journey to manhood will take him through encounters with crooked cowboys and bloodthirsty Indians, and from Nacogdoches, Texas, to San Francisco, California.
Chase Wilson, born in Tennessee, is also orphaned at an early age. But Chase doesn’t have a kindly rancher to shepherd him to adulthood. In fact, it seems that every guiding influence that enters young Chase’s life is soon stripped away. Still, Chase struggles to build a better life for himself.
The Scarpetta Factor
by Patricia Cornwell
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame….
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events, culminating in an ominous package—possibly a bomb—showing up at the front desk of the apartment building where she and her husband, Benton, live.
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(Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
by Joshilyn Jackson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she’s helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel’s life seems neatly on track–a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna – everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
The Native Land: The Olive Rogers Story
by Bill Shuey
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The Native Land: Book Two continues the story of the western migration on the Santa Fe Trail. This time the story deals with the Oliver Rogers family and their decision to use the Cimarron Cutoff.
After they are attacked by Indians and their numbers reduced, Oliver and two other families join with a group of Mormons headed for Utah to continue their journey.
Oliver finds a wagon train scout who was captured by the Kiowa and managed to escape. He joins the wagon train and enters into an agreement with Oliver to form a partnership on a ranch once they arrive in New Mexico.
Succubus On Top
by Richelle Mead
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. If she so much as kisses Seth Mortensen, the shy, sexy writer she’s been dating, she’ll drain his life force. Admittedly, the shapeshifting and immortality perks of a succubus are terrific, but it’s completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can’t get down with the one mortal who accepts her for who she is…
It’s not just her personal life that’s in chaos. Doug, Georgina’s co-worker at a local bookstore, has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, and Georgina suspects something far more demonic than double espressos.
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(Georgina Kincaid Mysteries)
The Keepers of the Library
by Glenn Cooper
Rating: 4.4 #ad
England, 1775. An ambitious American pushes his expedition onward despite dire warnings from the locals. But what Benjamin Franklin discovers on the Isle of Wight isn’t just superstition. It’s a secret with the power to save the world—or destroy it.
In less than four hundred days, most of the world’s population will be dead. Nobody knows why, only when: February 9, 2027.
Retired FBI Special Agent Will Piper is one of the few who will live “Beyond the Horizon.” Fifteen years ago, he revealed the prophecy to the world after the hunt for a madman led him to the mystical Library of Vectis, now housed at Area 51, in an unmarked location in the Nevada desert.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Foundations, Funny Business & Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The best of intentions shouldn’t include murder.
An HR specialist and trauma counselor, Stacie is on the board of a fledgling non-profit foundation set up to benefit victims of domestic violence. After a slashed tire, attempted break in, and a murder, Stacie isn’t buying coincidental bad karma. Someone wants her off the board – at any cost. Her fancy surveillance equipment, impressive alarm system, and a ferocious Maltese dog offer only so much protection. That may not be enough when politics are involved. Enter Kevin McNair, a smooth talker with piercing blue eyes. Can she trust him with her heart or her life?
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(A Stacie Maroni Mysteries)
Over My Dead Body
by Jeffrey Archer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit—a cold case squad—to catch the criminals nobody else can.
In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner—convicted of forgery and theft—was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client?
On a luxury liner en route to New York, the battle for power within a wealthy dynasty is about to turn to murder.
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(William Warwick Mysteries)
House of Lies
by D. S. Butler
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A dark secret. A haunted past. And a house full of lies.
When two teenage girls vanish without a trace from an educational retreat at Chidlow House in Lincolnshire, the students and teachers are put on high alert.
Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart questions everyone who came into contact with the two girls, Cressida and Natasha, in the days leading up to their disappearance.
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(Detective Karen Hart Mysteries)
Reincarnation of the Morrigan
Complete Series Boxed Set
by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What’s a girl to do when she finds out she has a great destiny? Reject it, of course.
Angelica Morgan doesn’t have a clue what fate has in store for her. She’s about to find out! Grab this 9-book complete series boxed set to join her on this urban fantasy adventure! The world is on its second pandemic in a decade and EMT Angelica Morgan is burned out.
An old boyfriend, and surprise her new boss, puts her on administrative leave. Believing tea and cookies are a good solution, Angelica heads to her grandmothers. Can the world get weirder? Yes, yes it can. What Angelica learns sends her careening down an entirely new path.
Turkey Day Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Tinker’s Cove, Maine, has a long history of Thanksgiving festivities, from visits with TomTom Turkey to the annual Warriors high school football game and Lucy Stone’s impressive pumpkin pie. But this year, someone has added murder to the menu, and Lucy intends to discover who left Metinnicut Indian activist Curt Nolan dead – with an ancient war club next to his head.
The list of suspects isn’t exactly brief. Nolan had a habit of disagreeing with just about everybody he met. Between fixing dinner for twelve and keeping her four kids from tearing each other limb from limb, Lucy has a pretty full plate already.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
Jealousy
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.4 #ad
HATRED LEADS TO OBSESSION . . . It’s taken time for the plan to unfold, years spent waiting, watching, hating. And after the first victim, the killing gets easier and easier . . .
OBSESSION LEADS TO JEALOUSY . . . The Crissmans, owners of Crissman & Wolfe department store, were once one of Portland’s most powerful families. There’s still enough fortune left to sow mistrust between Lucy, her bohemian sister Layla, their brother Lyle, and his grasping wife Kate. When a charity event at the Crissman Lodge ends in a fatal poisoning, Lucy becomes a prime suspect. But the truth is even more twisted, and Lucy can’t be sure which of her family is being targeted . . . or who to fear.
AND JEALOUSY LEADS TO MURDER . . .
The Hive
by Gregg Olsen
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Glamorous messiah or charlatan? A mask of beauty hides deadly secrets in #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s mesmerizing novel of suspense.
In the Pacific Northwest, detective Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposé. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who’s pulled millions into her euphoric orbit…