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)
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Red
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Ryleigh “Red” Rodriguez always knew she was different. Mostly because people never let her forget it.
An Irish mother. A Mexican father. Red hair as ferocious as the sun.
They teased her. They taunted her. And in the end … they underestimated her. Especially Sheriff Max Frazier. Max never expected Red to join his latest victim—Atticus Lawson—on making good on her promise. Max’s home was on fire. The fire would keep going until it burned itself out and turned everything to ashes.
A little girl who belonged to one of his neighbors tugged his sleeve. “I saw a woman outside your house. She had red hair. And she left a body in the backyard,” she said in a tinny voice.
Murder by the Bookend
by Laura Gail Black
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The quaint warehouse district of Hokes Folly, NC, is hopping despite the drizzly November chill. The occasion? The mountain town’s beloved antiquarian bookstore, Twice Upon a Time, is throwing a bash for its grand reopening. But bookseller Jenna Quinn’s peace of mind is shattered when the local library’s Director of Antique Books turns up dead in the parking lot–his head bashed in by a glittering pair of vintage glass bookends.
As they examine the murder scene, Jenna and her police detective boyfriend happen upon the only witness–the victim’s dog, who flees the scene leaving a trail of bloody footprints behind. If only dogs could speak, Jenna might be able to make quick work of the murder case and get back to stocking her bookcases.
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(An Antique Bookshop Mysteries)
Last One Still Standing
by Lisa Phillips
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The fight never let them go. Plucked from a life on the streets and trained as a covert agent, Karina chose loyalty until the secret organization she worked for pushed her too far. Falling for the target on a mission was never the plan. When he turned out not to be the good man she loved, Karina faked her death and built a safe life for their child.
Eas never wanted to wear a mask, but his life is the tragic tale of a boy born into a family at war. Raised in secret, he’s the answer to taking down a powerful company. At the helm is the cousin who murdered his parents, and the sister he needs to rescue from that life.
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(Chevalier Protection Specialists Mysteries)
Breath of Fire
by Amanda Bouchet
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Cat Fisa’s warlord captor-turned-lover may have crowned her with the symbols of the three realms, but war is far from over. She believes in what Griffin is trying to accomplish. She believes that peace will finally come when the realms are united. And she believes that with her by his side, Griffin has the strength to change the world.
But with her dangerous past resurfacing and the neighboring royals out for blood, Cat and Griffin must strike soon if they want to unify the land without full-scale war.
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(The Kingmaker Chronicles Mysteries)
The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
by Elizabeth Speller
Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Great War veteran Laurence Bartram arrives in Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the crumbling manor, the venerable church, and the memorial to the village’s soldiers. But despite this idyllic setting, Easton Deadall remains haunted by tragedy. In 1911, five-year-old Kitty Easton disappeared from her bed and has not been seen since.
While Laurence is visiting, a young maid vanishes in a sinister echo of Kitty’s disappearance. And when a body is discovered in the manor’s ancient church, Laurence is drawn into the grounds’ forgotten places, where deadly secrets lie in wait.
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(Laurence Bartram Mysteries)
The Final Reckoning
by Robert Bailey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
His last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves.
Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he’d bring “a reckoning” on Tom and everyone the southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he’s getting closer to his ultimate target. But for Tom, who’s dying of cancer, the role of savior and protector is a struggle that is becoming more desperate by the hour.
As the body count mounts, Tom, his partner, Rick Drake, and his best friend, Bocephus Haynes, brace for a confrontation like nothing they have ever faced before.
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(McMurtrie and Drake Legal Mysteries)
Not All Bastards Are from Vienna
by Andrea Molesini
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Andrea Molesini’s exquisite debut novel portrays the depths of heroism and horror within a Northern Italian village toward the end of World War I. While a family’s villa is requisitioned by enemy troops, they are forced to intimately confront war’s injustice as their involvement with its sinister underpinnings grows more and more complex.
In the autumn of 1917, Refrontolo—a small community north of Venice—is invaded by Austrian soldiers as the Italian army is pushed to the Piave River. The Spada family owns the largest estate in the area, where orphaned seventeen-year-old Paolo lives with his eccentric grandparents, headstrong aunt, and a loyal staff. With the battlefront nearby, the Spada home becomes a bastion of resistance, both clashing and cooperating with the military members imposing on their household.
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(McMurtrie and Drake Legal Mysteries)
Barbarian Princess Boxed Set
by Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Alongside friends, the former paladin turned Barbarian Princess Cassandra has faced her fears and come out on top. Now her journey takes her on a new path – alone.
She’s on a quest and it will demand everything from her. Does she have sufficient skill, experience, and determination to face and defeat the challenges she faces?
Cassandra has fought alongside Skharr DeathEater, but will she be able to forge a new path alone?
When the former paladin turned Barbarian Princess is robbed while aiding travelers against brigands, she vows to find the miscreants. Will her search lead her to them or greater danger?
Triangle of Hope
by Michael Meyer
Rating: 4.3 #ad
If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do. A tender story of love. Three strangers, each harboring a dark secret, become united by chance in a small Irish village, and the wonderful power of the human spirit comes alive.
If you believe that love and romance can happen in unusual circumstances, then this book is for you.
“If an author can make you cry for his characters then want to hug them close and then want to do an Irish jig with them to celebrate overcoming that much pain, then you know you have read a book that will stay with you forever.” – Wanda Hartzenberg, Wanda’s Amazing Amazon Reviewers