Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne
by M. L. Longworth
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A friend in his cigar club asks Antoine Verlaque to visit René Rouquet, a retired postal worker who has found a rolled-up canvas in his apartment. As the apartment once belonged to Paul Cézanne, Rouquet is convinced he’s discovered a treasure. But when Antoine arrives at the apartment, he finds René dead, the canvas missing, and a mysterious art history professor standing over the body.
When the painting is finally recovered, the mystery only deepens. The brushwork and color all point to Cézanne. But who is the smiling woman in the painting?
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(A Provençal Mysteries)
Fear Nothing
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you’ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else ever will, ever can—the mystery, the beauty, the many terrors, and the eerie, silken rhythms of the night—for it is only at night that he is free.
Until the night he witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered strangeness of Moonlight Bay and its residents.
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(Moonlight Bay Mysteries)
The Dark
by Sharon Bolton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is there to prevent disaster. But who would want to hurt a child?
DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of dark web sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women-hating, group known as ‘incels’ or ‘involuntary celibates.’ Joesbury’s team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast.
The Grim Sleeper
by Christine Pelisek
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The inside story of one of the notorious and elusive serial killer who stalked the vulnerable, the young, and the ignored in 1980s Los Angeles—and then returned decades later to kill again
The Grim Sleeper was one of the most brutal serial killers in California history, preying on the women of South Central for decades. No one knows this story better than Christine Pelisek, the reporter who followed it for more than ten years. Based on extensive interviews, reportage, and information never released to the public, The Grim Sleeper captures the long, bumpy road to justice in one of the most startling true crime stories of our generation from his violent first crime while serving in the US Army to his inevitable death in prison.
Stalker
by Lisa Stone
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Someone is always watching…
Derek Flint is a loner. He lives with his mother and spends his
evenings watching his clients on the CCTV cameras he has installed inside their homes. He likes their companionship – even if it’s through a screen.
When a series of crimes hits Derek’s neighbourhood, DC Beth Mayes begins to suspect he’s involved. How does he know so much about the victims’ lives? Why won’t he let anyone into his office? And what is his mother hiding in that strange, lonely house?
Awaken to Ascension
by Marsha Hankins
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Need help discovering your path to enlightenment? Discover an approachable guide to shattering illusions and finding inner peace.
Stuck in your spiritual development? Curious where profound truths may lie? Searching for clarity and greater self-awareness? Spiritual coach and healer with twenty-three years of experience, Marsha Hankins has guided countless seekers in their explorations of the bigger questions of existence. And now she’s here to share how to empower yourself in your journey, escape limiting beliefs, and tap into the infinite well of pure joy by reaching higher levels of consciousness and awareness.
Awaken to Ascension: Mastering Oneness and Knowing Yourself as Source is a nourishing guide for expanding your perspective and fully developing innate wisdom.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Best In Show
by Laurien Berenson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
There are dog shows. And then there’s The Poodle Club of America National Specialty Dog Show. For poodle purists, it’s the pinnacle of the season, drawing competitors and spectators from all over the world.
Once in Maryland, Melanie Travis is put to work selling raffle tickets by the co-chairs of the raffle committee, Betty Jean and Edith Jean Boone. Sixtyish steel magnolias from the South, the reclusive sisters make few appearances. But this year, they have a silver Toy puppy that has already caused quite a buzz on the show circuit.
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(A Melanie Travis Mysteries)
The Vanishing Point
by Val McDermid
Rating: 4.0 #ad
From one of the finest crime writers we have, The Vanishing Point kicks off with a nightmare scenario—the abduction of a child in an international airport. Stephanie Harker is in the screening booth at airport security, separated from Jimmy Higgins, the five-year-old boy she’s in the process of adopting, when a man in a TSA uniform leads the boy away. The more Stephanie sounds the alarm, the more the security agents suspect her, and the further away the kidnapper gets.
It soon becomes apparent that nothing in this situation is clear-cut. For starters, Jimmy’s birth mother was a celebrity—living in a world where conspiracy and obfuscation are excused for the sake of column inches…
The Strangers on Montagu Street
by Karen White
Rating: 4.7 #ad
With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house…and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem.
Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well.
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(Tradd Street Mysteries)
Cold Snap
by Marc Cameron
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the remote northern town of Deadhorse, Alaska, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter escorts four very dangerous handcuffed prisoners onto a small bush plane en route to Fairbanks. Cutter’s expecting a routine mission and a nonstop flight—or so he thinks. When the plane goes down in the wilderness, all hell breaks loose. The prisoners murder the pilot and a guard and torch the plane. But their nightmare’s just beginning. Back in Anchorage, deputy Lola Teariki has traced the dismembered foot to a missing girl—and the serial psychopath who slaughtered her.
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(An Arliss Cutter Mysteries)
The Island
by Amy Cross
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the near future, everyone’s a criminal. Every lie, every minor mistake, is monitored and logged. No-one, no matter how hard they might try, can ever be perfect. And if you build up enough points, you’ll be hauled off to work for the government.
Unless you decide that enough’s enough, in which case you can choose to go to the island. But if you take that option, you can never come back.
Arrested for a crime she didn’t commit, Iris Bloom soon discovers that she has a long criminal record that she knew nothing about. Invoking her right to go to the island, she quickly discovers that she’s merely swapped one hell for another. On the island, anything goes.
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(Island Mysteries)
The Last Time We Met
by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Rating: 5,0 #ad
As a member of the richest family in town, Willow understands the importance of reputation. Her stern grandmother has taught her that family secrets are to be buried, and as the most popular girl in school, Willow follows that lesson with a smile covering up the darkness.
But when Walden, the new guy from the wrong side of town comes to her school, Willow finds her image slipping and the secrets of her homelife in danger of being exposed. As a scandal tears the couple apart and throws Willow into a new, unfamiliar life, she must choose between saving Walden’s future or risking it all for love.
Defiance of the Fall
by TheFirstDefier, JF Brink
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Just as a threat is dealt with, an opportunity presents itself.
After searching for months, Zac’s forces have finally discovered the elusive Underworld that’s both teeming with riches and dangers. Meanwhile, the armies of the Undead Empire advances on all fronts while the Dominators scheme in the dark.
Having endured the Integration in the punishing environment of the subterranean cave system, the trapped warriors of the Underworld could become the key in surviving the incursions aboveground.
But first, Zac has to deal with the golems intent on digging to the center of the plane
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(Defiance of the Fall Mysteries)