Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Broadcast 4 Murder
by J.C. Eaton
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Phee’s mother Harriet is going to be a star! At least, that’s how the Sun City West retiree describes her chance to host a live radio program of her book club’s Booked 4 Murder Mystery Hour on Arizona’s KSCW. But instead of chatting about charming cozies, Harriet ends up screaming bloody murder over the airwaves after discovering the body of Howard Buell, the station’s programming director, in a closet—with a pair of sewing shears shoved into his chest.
The number one suspect is Howard’s ex-girlfriend Sylvia Strattlemeyer who believed she was going to host a sewing talk show before Harriet was offered the spot.
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(Sophie Kimball Mysteries)
Finding Maisy
by Glenda C Manus
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Reverend Rock Clark has scoffed at the term “pastor burnout” when he’s heard other pastors use it. Just an excuse for a sabbatical, he once told his wife, Liz. But now he’s eating his words. Eating crow is more like it, and he’s been doing a lot of that lately.
Maisy Martin thinks she’s lucky despite having a disappearing daddy and a momma everyone thinks is crazy. Her luck began the day she got caught stealing tomatoes. If not for that fateful day ten years ago, she wouldn’t have Tom and Zell Baker in her life and would likely be drifting from one foster home to another.
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(Southern Grace Series)
Fire and Ashes
by Harley Tate
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth. A government coverup. A family caught in the middle.
Welcome to Falling Skies. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Former Marine Caleb Machert is managing overworked line crews when reports of an impending world-wide disaster hit the news. His men panic, but he’s not buying it. The government would never hide something this important, would they?
Elizabeth is busy herding her students into the library when she discovers an asteroid is headed straight for the east coast. Her first instinct is to find her husband and daughter and flee west, but she can’t leave. Twenty first graders are depending on her.
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(Falling Skies Mysteries)
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT
by SUSANNA BEARD
Rating: 4.0 #ad
THAT NIGHT. Lisa remembers the first part of the night: an evening in the pub with her best friend. Then nothing. She wakes up, days later. She’s in hospital. Her best friend is dead.
WHAT HAPPENED? Lisa holes up in a remote country cottage, plagued by guilt and flashbacks: how did their assailant know them? Why were they attacked? And what really happened that night?
With only vague memories of the event, she cuts herself off from friends and family, spending her days wandering the hills with her dog, Riley.
I’m the Grasshopper
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.0 #ad
When newspaper staff writer Stacy Estes trips over a man’s body in her grandmother’s yard, she goes from reporting the news to being the news. This is hard for the 48-year-old widow whose reactions to life are usually…Run. Hide.
Stacy fights to keep her secrets intact, including her physical disability, especially from the first love of her life, Kirk, who has moved back to the community. Lost treasure? Gold mining in Texas? Flying saucers on her grandmother’s hill? And what about the men who go into the Comanche Cliff store – and disappear?
Lake Silence
by Anne Bishop
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shape-shifters, and even deadlier paranormal beings. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget….
After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns such as Vicki’s don’t have any distance from the Others, the dominant predators who rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what is out there watching you.
The CafFUNated Mysteries Collection
by Angela Ruth Strong
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Book 1: A Caffeine Conundrum. Solving a murder mystery is harder when you don’t trust your partner…or their taste in beverages.
Book2: A Cuppa Trouble. Can a couple of baristas chase down a car thief without spilling a drop of their favorite drink?
Book 3: A Latte Difficulty. Can two baristas track down a gunman after the espresso shot heard ‘round the world?
Book 4: A Mug of Mayhem Book. When their wedding venue becomes a crime scene, the bride and groom are in for a real trick-or-treat.
Harmony and Disharmony
by Bill Hiatt
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Orpheus is not interested in inheriting his father’s throne. He wants nothing more than to use music to bring joy to his fellow mortals. Jason believes that nothing is more important than wresting his father’s throne from a usurper. He wants to perform heroic feats that will earn him as much glory as possible. Under ordinary circumstances, Orpheus and Jason would probably never have met. Certainly, they would never have been allies. But scheming gods plunge them into adventures greater than either of them has ever imagined. Both of them want to achieve their respective dreams. But facing hostile armies, monsters, and even conflicts among the gods will force them into horrible dilemmas. Will they sacrifice their dreams, or will they die trying to preserve them?
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(Fateful Pathways)
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A spectacular new novel, complete with high stakes, hot nights, murder and graft—not to mention car chases, car races, car explosions, and car—well, you get the idea
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney’s younger brother, Wild Bill. Now Bill’s missing, so Barney is dispatched to Florida in the middle of summer with the bugs and the heat and the bad-hair-day humidity. Barney’s thinking things can’t get too much worse as she makes the rounds of South Beach, unemployed and sunburned, following her brother’s trail of broken-hearted bimbos.
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(Alexandra Barnaby Mysteries)
The Heroes of Eastbrooke Series (Books 1-4)
by Juliette Duncan
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From a USA Today bestselling author comes this page-turning, faith-filled romantic suspense series that will leave you guessing. For fans of Dee Henderson.
After twenty years, mystery still surrounds the death of Police Chief Stanley Carlton. His sons believe he was murdered. And now, strange things are happening in the picturesque mountainside village of Eastbrooke.
A teen is kidnapped. A body washes up in the river outside of town. A cult takes up residence in the mountains. The mountain pass offers a perfect smuggling route to the coast. Not just for drugs, but for weapons and human trafficking.
Could these happenings all be connected to their father’s murder?
Triple Strike
by Eli Evron
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Recovering from a severe injury, Mossad special agent Oren is stationed as a case officer in Italy, tasked with recruiting essential covert assets.
But when one such informant provides a glance into a dangerous alliance forming in the Middle East – a cooperation centered around a complicated drug smuggling operation and united by a joint enemy – Oren is thrown right in the middle of a global conspiracy.
As Oren investigates, the drugs soon turn out to be merely a means to an elaborate narco-terrorism operation that, if successful, will result in a horrific coordinated triple terror attack against civilian targets.
A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Rating: 4.6 #ad
October 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire – the fastest fighter aircraft in the world – to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing.
Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs.
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(Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)
The Last Shakiri
by J. H. Archer
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Dragons? Really? Giant flying things? He thought the old man finally lost his mind. The destruction of the people and places he held dear proved otherwise.
Trained by a master in the Old Ways, he sets out with skills as sharp as the sword he wields. But no amount of training can prepare anyone for coming face to face with one of Them.
What can one boy with a sword do? Use his wits and cunning to find the sorceress who created them and kill her.
Politikill
by Timothy Gene Sojka
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Take a bribe, meet your maker.
Imagine if someone recorded politicians accepting bribes. Or, an execution squad murdered corrupt legislators on camera, then broadcast politicians’ wrongdoings. What if politicians actually feared retribution for accepting payola? Consider the seismic reverberations which would occur within the DC infrastructure if politicians feared dishonesty and graft.
Could our current government still run as our founding fathers intended?
Nine Lives
by Peter Swanson
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke—until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list.
First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common?
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
“Our Wild and Precious Lives deals with the big questions of Life, Death, Love and Loss set against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean Conflict…it also deals with the social upheaval in families and societies caused by war, on both sides…” Amazon Review
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Diamonds in the Rough
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
What would you risk if you had nothing left to lose?
Tom Logan awakens from a drug-induced coma holding a black diamond, his only clue to finding his brother gone missing in the wilds of Arkansas. He meets Amber Armstrong, neo-pop poet turned police officer, and Mary Ann, a willowy teen, as his journey begins. Their magical adventure leads them into a cloud-cloaked valley fraught with beauty, timeless mystery, and imminent peril.
Will Tom find love, redemption, and his missing brother or die facing the two things he fears most?