Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder at the Car Rally
by Sonia Parin
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lighthearted 1920s cozy mystery. She can run, but she can’t hide.
When Evie Parker, Countess of Woodridge, decides to spend a day in London unaccompanied she has no idea she will encounter the one person she has hoped to spend the rest of her life avoiding. There’s no escaping Isabel Fitzpatrick’s exuberant energy and desire to show off her new husband. However, the encounter sets off a series of events and brings trouble right to Evie’s doorstep.
Even when Evie manages to return to her country house in Berkshire, she finds the only way to avoid her childhood friend is to flee by joining a car rally group, but trouble pursues her and now a man has died under suspicious circumstances.
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(An Evie Parker Mysteries)
The Novels of Jimmy Breslin
by Jimmy Breslin
Rating: 4.5 #ad
World Without End, Amen; The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight; Table Money; and Forsaking All Others
World Without End, Amen
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Table Money
Forsaking All Others
Time Bomb
by Jonathan Kellerman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn’t escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky? Intrigued by a request from the sniper’s father to conduct a “psychological autopsy” of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern—it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper’s past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware’s future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.
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(An Alex Delaware Mysteries)
The Protector
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A heart divided . . . An enemy unseen . . . A riddle of trust.
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, must defend her home in the Pine Barrens while she struggles to revive her career and salvage a long-distance romance.
What is God doing? And who can she trust?
“OUTSTANDING!!! What a saga! Mystery, intrigue, breathtaking moments, romance. This series had it all. I felt part of the story and the adventure. Lived in New Jersey a lot of years,but never visited the Pine Barrens. Got a good sense of them in this saga.” by Amazon Customer
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(The Dumont Chronicles Series)
Spirit of Gettysburg
by S. Elizabeth Calvert
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Epic…Spellbinding…Thrilling Love Story Extraordinaire! Can ghosts die twice?
Apparently so!Washington, D.C. psychic to the powerful elites headstrong, vulnerable Maureen McAlister flees a contemporary, shattered life into the ghostly, loving arms of Confederate soldier Major Clayton Fontaine Douglas, her former husband and one-true-soulmate. He is the only man she loves and trusts. Clayton, an unrepentant Rebel and proud, brave officer in General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, is now a ghost stuck in time in her inherited Gettysburg, Pennsylvania estate. He is furious at God for the loss of his Country and her. He is dying again because of her.
We Must Save Jepson!
by Mark Petersen
Rating: 3.7 #ad
Britain’s Greatest Bumbler and His Extraordinary African Expedition:
Suspense! Murder! Tea breaks! In this hilarious historical thriller, H. R. Huxtable sets out to rescue a British outpost. Someone has ventilated his tent with bullet holes. But despite harsh jungle, cannibals, an oversexed female, and his own unhinged troops, he will succeed. Er … won’t he?
We Must Save Jepson! is a satirical romp through the Victorian era of exploration and expansion, wherein our hero discovers hitherto unknown depths of character despite the self-satisfied arrogance of his age.
Black Magic Woman
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return…
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
Medieval Magick
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.0 #ad
This is the complete Elemental Series by Elizabeth Rose all in one boxed set. The set includes:
The Dragon and the DreamWalker – Book 1: Fire: Lord Drake of Dunsbard is a Pendragon and known as the infamous Dragon’s Son. He saves Brynn from being sacrificed to the dragon only to discover she is feared by the villagers and known as a witch, or lady of fire. Just what he needs to help him with his quest…
Also includes: The Duke and the Dryad – Book 2: Earth, The Sword and the Sylph – Book 3: Air, The Sheik and the Siren – Book 4: Water – CLICK above to read the full description!
The Girl Beyond the Gate
by Becca Day
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Welcome to Kensington Grove, the safest place to call home…
Jodie Madison can’t think of a better place for a fresh start than the exclusive, gated community of The Grove. But from the moment she passes through the wrought iron gates, she starts to suspect she’s made a mistake.
Despite her vow to keep apart from the other residents, Jodie can’t help but feel drawn to her unnerving neighbour, Norah Williams, and terminally ill daughter, Lacey. Jodie knows she should stay away, but something draws her in.
A Witch in Time
by Constance Sayers
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel.
Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930’s Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles — only she doesn’t know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he’s watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning.
At first, Helen doesn’t believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman’s. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Plainly Murder
by Isabella Alan
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Angela Braddock has come to Rolling Brook to lend a hand at her Aunt Eleanor’s traditional Amish quilt shop. But when Eleanor’s quilting circle mourns the loss of their oldest member, Evelyn, they make a startling discovery about a tragic event in Evelyn’s past. More than a decade earlier, during a barn raising, Evelyn’s son Eric fell from the roof and died. Evelyn had always insisted that Eric was pushed, and now a clue in an old quilt convinces Angie to dig up the truth…and discover one of Rolling Brook’s darkest secrets.
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(Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries)
Secrets of Honor
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Except when they’re not.
By the end of a long evening working as a special set of eyes for the presidential security detail, all Kat Marengo wants is to kick off her shoes and stash two not-really-stolen rings in a secure spot. Plus maybe sleep wth Dave Krizak. No, make that definitely sleep with Dave Krizak. The next morning, she wishes her new top priorities were so simple.
As an operative for a covert agency buried in the depths of the Department of Homeland Security, Kat is asked to participate in a matter of life or death–locate a kidnapped girl believed to be held in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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.
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(The Matthew Corbett Mysteries)
Beauty and the Beast
by L. Steele
Rating: 4.9 #ad
“Run my Beauty… If I catch you, you are MINE…”
Michael Byron Domenico Sovrano. The Capo of Sicily’s notorious Mafia company. My father owed him,
so he took me to repay the debt. And married me to further his own ambitions. I hate him, I am determined to resist him. But what happens when I begin to fall for my new husband…?
A feisty fashion designer goes toe-to-toe with a brutal gangster in this marriage of convenience age gap, Mafia romance boxset and teaches him the meaning of love.
Watch Her Disappear
by Lisa Regan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The girl’s prom dress, the color of champagne, shimmers in the dying light. A corsage of wilting pink sweetheart roses decorates her wrist. She is perfectly still, lying on the ground like a delicate china doll, trapped forever in a sleep from which she will never wake…
When a call comes in about a young girl found dead at a high school prom—her life drained away from a fatal stab wound—Detective Josie Quinn drops everything to attend the scene. Taking in the girl’s neatly braided hair, Josie feels a flicker of recognition. But no one comes forward to identify this innocent child, murdered on what should have been the happiest night of her life.
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(Detective Josie Quinn Mysteries)
The Affair
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.
Reacher is ordered undercoverto find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justiceand an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.
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(Jack Reacher Mysteries)
Just a Kiss
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Knight: Sir Arnon de Bar has just been released from a curse by the old witch Hecuba. The problem is, some side effects still linger. He sees a beautiful but mysterious woman at the swamp one night, and he catches her kissing a frog before she vanishes into thin air. The baron of Slapton is holding a competition with the winner being rewarded his daughter’s hand in marriage. To his surprise when he approaches the castle, he discovers the baron’s daughter is also the girl he saw in the swamp.
The Witch: Freya Fane is more eccentric than most ladies. She is a witch with a pet frog as her Familiar that she kisses in order to teleport from place to place. Her father has devised a competition to marry her off, and she doesn’t like it. Especially since she is trying to make a potion to cure her ailing mother.
Final Scream
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Deadly secrets ignite the truth about a killer in this thriller “full of exciting and unexpected twists” from the #1 New York Times bestselling author (Fresh Fiction).
For the wealthy Buchanans, the town of Prosperity – in the shadow of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains – has delivered everything its name promises. Not that Cassidy Buchanan cares about money, cars, or expensive clothes – unlike her beautiful older sister. All Cassidy wants is to ride her horses. Then her father hires Brig McKenzie, a handsome troublemaker who ignites a storm of rivalry. By summer’s end, a fatal fire rages through the Buchanans’ sawmill, tearing the family apart – and Brig disappears, presumed guilty of arson.
Email from the Future
by Michael Rogers
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s 2084, and Aldus, an elderly robot repairman, is writing the history of the 21st century for his grandson, Luca. Born in 2010, Aldus lived through it all – the War on the Warming, the repair of the planet, the rise of true artificial intelligence, automation everywhere and much more. “I was but a foot soldier,” Aldus tells his grandson, “but there is value in that perspective.”
Aldus also fears his time is short. Unlucky members of his generation sometimes experience long-delayed side effects from childhood infection with COVID. Aldus could be among them, and so his writing may have a literal deadline.