Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Haunted House Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Falling leaves, chill winds, shorter days . . . and spooky houses. Halloween in Maine transports part-time reporter Lucy Stone into cozy heaven. Until someone goes missing . . .
A woman with many hats, Lucy Stone is rarely on time, but she’s never too late to catch the important news in the Maine coastal town of Tinker’s Cove. Sometimes it might even make the front page of the Pennysaver, the town’s weekly paper. For example, the latest out of the basement town hall meeting is that the dilapidated house across the street from the elementary school will not be condemned. In fact, a local inspection has proved it’s structurally sound. Even more surprising, newcomers to Tinker’s Cove are about to close on their soon-to-be new home.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
The Riddle Man
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Some yesterdays can kill your tomorrow….
She’s a millennial, living a quiet, unassuming life in small town, Idaho. As far as the government knows, she owns nothing. The house is not hers. It belongs to the government. The name on her driver’s license barely registers when a customer calls her. And why should it? It’s not hers either. Most days she feels dead—inside and out.
Then a new neighbor moves into the house next door. He looks as if he carries the whole world on his shoulders and seldom lifts his head. His boring gray sedan sits in the driveway. His windows are heavily shuttered. There are no deliveries to his house. At least none that she’d seen. Then again, she’s long lost her perspective on what is normal, what is ordinary and what is dangerous. Still, being reclusive shouldn’t mean he’s a serial killer.
The Book of Accidents
by Chuck Wendig
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there.
Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.
Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.
Shiplap and Spell Hunting
by Amy Boyles
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Clementine’s adventures continue in Shiplap and Spell hunting!
When a mysterious portal opens up in Norma Ray’s barn, giving people everything they wish for, Clem and Rufus are on edge, doing everything they can to close it as quickly as possible.
But that’s easier said than done. When the whole town discovers the portal’s abilities, everyone is wishing for their heart’s desire. Only some folks want things that should never be wished for–namely Malene.
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(Magical Renovation Mysteries)
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. Once more she must try to save him, change his fate and rewrite karma.
Gallowglass
by S J Morden
Rating: 4.4 #ad
JACK VAN DER VEERDEN IS ON THE RUN.
From his billionaire parents’ chilling plans, from his brutal bodyguard, from a planet on the brink of climate chaos.
Seeking freedom out in space, he gets a job on a mining ship chasing down an asteroid. Crewed by mercenaries and misfits, they all want a cut of the biggest payday in history.
A single mistake could cost Jack his life – and that’s before they reach their destination. The bounty from the asteroid could change lives and save nations – and corrupt any one of them.
A Stranger at the Door
by Jason Pinter
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rachel Marin is in a good place. After years of struggle, the single mother has found both a stable, loving relationship and a new purpose: putting her investigative skills to work solving crimes for the local PD. But just as the pieces of her life are finally starting to fall into place, her teenaged son’s teacher is gruesomely murdered, starting a domino effect that shatters her peaceful existence.
When Rachel discovers an ominous email the teacher sent to her just before his death, she knows she must help bring his killer to justice.
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(A Rachel Marin Mysteries)
The Templeton Case
by Victor L. Whitechurch
Rating: 3.9 #ad
The crime scene is Marsh Quay, a small fishing village in the South Downs. Wealthy amateur explorer, Reginald Templeton, recently returned from South Africa, is found murdered on his yacht, stabbed in the heart.
Who was Templeton visiting the night before his death? Why did Harold Grayson, an artist lodging at the Mariners Rest in Marsh Quay, leave so soon after the body was discovered? Will county Detective-Sergeant Colson be able to sift through the maze of conflicting clues without calling in Scotland Yard?
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Love and Money, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.6 #ad
No one wants to believe murder can happen in their neighborhood.
Murder is nothing new for Sheridan Hendley, amateur sleuth, or her husband, Detective Brett McMann. Still, shots fired add a layer of tension to babysitting and being neighborly. This time the murder is too close for comfort. There are no witnesses and no verified identification of the victim, not to mention the car accident prompting Sheridan to be next door. Questions are raised about an investment company and business practices. Could a kitten have the key to the motive and killer?
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
The Reykjavik Noir Trilogy
by Lilja Sigurdardóttir
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Get ALL THREE books in the electrifying, unputdownable Reykjavik Noir Trilogy in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set!
A young, single mother is lured into cocaine smuggling to keep custody of her son, as she eludes customs officers and the police, and tries to escape the clutches of the kingpins in Lilja Sigurardttir’s critically acclaimed, award-winning, international bestselling Reykjavik Noir Trilogy. A nerve-shredding, emotive Icelandic series by the co-writer of the Netflix hit Katla.
Snare (Book One)
Trap (Book Two)
Cage (Book Three)
Queen of Diamonds
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Logan Hunter is a bestselling author with a penchant for the ladies. Kendall Theron, his efficient publicist is prim and colorless—at least on the surface. Beneath the proper facade is a woman who will do anything to protect her family, even if it’s not quite legal. Kendall, knowing her boss’s propensity for the fair sex, has replicated herself into a lady who should hold no appeal for the charismatic charmer she works for. She’s even added a Mrs. in front of her name for an extra layer of protection. If her boss ever turns those sharp eyes on her, if his curiosity is unleashed and he digs up her secrets, the results could mean jail time. It’s taken Logan Hunter nearly three years to discover there’s more to his employee than meets the eye.
Magic Binds
by Ilona Andrews
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar.
Kate’s father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and is slowly bleeding him dry in a never-ending bid for power. A Witch Oracle has predicted that if Kate marries the man she loves, Atlanta will burn and she will lose him forever. And the only person Kate can ask for help is long dead.
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(Kate Daniels Mysteries)
Murder at Bray Manor
by Lee Strauss
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A poltergeist guilty of murder?
In order to keep Bray Manor afloat financially, Felicia and Ambrosia have opened the estate to the public for club meetings and special events. Knitters, stamp collectors and gardeners converge weekly~targets for the poltergeist that seems to find amusement in hiding small things from their owners.
Bray Manor hosts a dance to raise money for maimed soldiers who struggle with peacetime after the Great War. Felicia invites her flapper friends and her new beau, Captain Smithwick, a man Ginger has met before and definitely doesn’t like.
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(A Ginger Gold Mysteries)
London Twist
by Barry Eisler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
For Delilah, the Mossad’s top seductress, the parameters of the assignment were routine. The contractor: MI6. The objective: infiltrate a terror network, this one operating out of London. The stakes: a series of poison gas attacks on civilian population centers.
There’s just one wrinkle. The target is a woman–as smart, beautiful, and committed as Delilah herself. And for a cynical operative thrust suddenly out of her element, the twists and turns of the spy game are nowhere near as dangerous as the secrets and desires of the human heart.
The Secret Keeper
by Kate Morton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
During a picnic at her family’s farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking crime, a crime that challenges everything she knows about her adored mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel and her sisters are meeting at the farm to celebrate Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this is her last chance to discover the truth about that long-ago day, Laurel searches for answers that can only be found in Dorothy’s past. Clue by clue, she traces a secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds thrown together in war-torn London—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—whose lives are forever after entwined.