Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Betrayal at Ravenswick
by Kelly Oliver
Rating: 4.1 #ad
What’s the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course.
Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover. At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he’s a crack huntsman. The War Office is convinced he’s a traitor. Fiona thinks he’s a pompous prig.
What sort of name is Fredrick Fredricks anyway?
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(A Fiona Figg Mysteries)
The Glass Room
by Ann Cleeves
Rating: 4.6 #ad
As local merchants unite to attract tourists for a much anticipated weekend quilting event, business is sure to spill over into eateries like Daisy’s Tea Garden. Gorgeous craftwork is hanging everywhere—but among the quilts, potholders, and placemats, one gallery owner is wrapped up in some dangerous affairs . . .
The Hostage
by W.E.B. Griffin
Rating: 4.6 #ad
U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate the death of an American diplomat in Argentina and the kidnapping of that diplomat’s wife. With the woman’s children and family now at risk, Castillo’s running out of time to uncover the connections and truth behind it all.
Amidst threats, murder, and a scandal tying the United Nations to Iraq, there is also a lot of money flying around—and some people will do anything it takes to get their hands on it…
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(A Presidential Agent Mysteries)
Big Easy
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the most haunted city on earth, the police can’t afford to disregard the supernatural. When N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia realizes voodoo is involved in a spate of panhandler murders, he turns to someone he knows who can help him—Wyatt Thomas, the French Quarter’s favorite private investigator. Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, Wyatt’s partner, is also a Tulane University English professor. Together, they form the most potent paranormal partnership in the Big Easy. If you have problems involving magic, voodoo, ghosts, witches, werewolves, shifters, the occult, or the supernatural, Wyatt and Mama are adept at paranormal investigation and the ones to call.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
The Stranger in Our Bed
by Samantha Lee Howe
Rating: 4.2 #ad
I ended my marriage for a man who didn’t exist…
I have everything money can buy. I’m a good wife, but sometimes I feel trapped. And when I start an affair with a stranger called Ewan, my life changes in ways I can’t begin to understand.
Because Ewan breaks apart my marriage piece by piece and then he just disappears. He uses a fake name and leaves no trace behind; it’s like he doesn’t even exist.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
A Blizzard of Polar Bears
by Alice Henderson
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the ice to examine them up close.
But as her study progresses, and she gathers data on the health of individual bears, things start to go awry.
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(Alex Carter Mysteries)
My MacArthur
by Cindy Fazzi
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The year is 1930. The place: Manila. Douglas MacArthur is the most powerful man in the Philippines, a United States colony. He’s fifty years old, divorced, and he falls in love at first sight with a ravishing young Filipino woman. He writes her a love note on the spot. Her name is Isabel Rosario Cooper, an aspiring movie actress. One glance at his note and she thinks of him as my MacArthur.
MacArthur pursues his romantic obsession even though he’s breaking numerous taboos. She reciprocates his affection because he could open doors for her financially struggling family. That MacArthur happens to be handsome compensates for the fact that he’s as old as her father.
When MacArthur is appointed the U.S. Army chief of staff, he becomes the youngest four-star general and one of America’s most powerful men. Out of hubris, he takes Isabel with him to America without marrying her.
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Gone but Knot Forgotten
by Mary Marks
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sorting through the estate of a wealthy recluse may sound like a fascinating task, but when the skeletons in the closets turn out to be real, Martha and her quilting pals wish they’d stuck to basting and batting . . .
Martha Rose is stunned when she hears that her best friend from high school has passed away. Her shock doubles when she learns that Harriet Oliver made her the executor of her estate. But when investigators determine that Harriet was murdered, Martha recruits her fellow quilters to help find the culprit. She’s mastered the art of piecing together blocks to create intricate quilts, but piecing together her friend’s murder will prove far more challenging . . .
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(A Quilting Mysteries)
A Search for Starlight
by James Maxwell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Beyond the firewall lies a greater threat than Taimin and Selena could have foreseen.
Taimin and Selena have destroyed the firewall that once trapped them in their dangerous wasteland. But with their hard-fought freedom now comes a greater threat.
Outside the wasteland, under the same two scorching suns, live the bonded. This powerful ancient enemy will unleash a destructive war on the wasteland’s inhabitants, and Taimin knows it’s a fight they cannot win.
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(The Firewall Trilogy)
Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.9 #ad
The fantastic adventure of a brilliant young scientist and a closely guarded secret that topples everything he has believed about reality.
A renowned scientist was orphaned at age eight and has grown to adulthood with no knowledge of his own ancestry. When he is awakened by an unusual visitor with an extremely urgent message it leads to events that topple everything he has believed about reality.
While still coming to terms with the unbelievable truth about his ancestry, he must defend the ancient Niergel (Near–ġ-el – Mysterious Secret) against brutal enemies. He is soon fighting a dangerous underworld Crime Syndicate and a powerful evil faction from his family’s past, along with a horde of disembodied offspring of fallen angels, known as the Eljo, who threaten the entire world.
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
One of the most beloved characters in mystery/suspense fiction, archeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody bravely faces gravest peril in Cairo on the eve of World War One in New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s magnificent Egyptian adventure, He Shall Thunder in the Sky. The San Francisco Examiner calls these heart-racing exploits of Amelia and her courageous family, the Emersons, “pure delight.” But perhaps the New York Times Book Review states it best: “Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”
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(An Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Shocking…Left out o f her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida.
Exciting… The only available clues—limited as they are—were stored in a bank safe-deposit box somewhere in the Sunshine State. Shelby is given 90 days to locate the bank, decipher all clues and find her buried inheritance. If she doesn’t find it within the 90-day time frame, she’ll be forced to forfeit it altogether.
Riveting…
Treachery Times Two
by Robert McCaw
Rating: 4.3 #ad
On Hawaii Island, a volcanic earthquake disrupts an abandoned cemetery—unearthing the body of a woman mutilated by her killer to conceal her identity.
The search for her identity leads Hilo Hawaii’s Chief Detective Koa Kane to a mysterious defense contractor with a politically connected board of directors. Defying his chief of police, Koa pursues the killer, only to become entangled in an FBI espionage investigation of Deimos, a powerful secret military weapon. Is the FBI telling all it knows—or does it, too, have a duplicitous agenda?
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(Koa Kane Hawaiian Mysteries)
The Royal Baths Murder
by J. R. Ellis
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction?
A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his novels, Damian Penrose, who was appearing at the town’s crime writing festival, has been ruthlessly strangled. But with no trace of the murderer and no apparent means of escape, how did the killer simply vanish from the scene of the crime?
There’s only one mind capable of unlocking this mystery: DCI Jim Oldroyd. But as he and his team quickly discover, while Penrose was popular with the reading public, he had made plenty of enemies.
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(A Yorkshire Murder Mysteries)