Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder Wears White
by Stephanie Blackmoore
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A bridal party is less than festive when one their own drops dead at a food tasting in the second book in the series that started with Engaged in Death.
For wedding planner Mallory Shepard, murder isn’t on the agenda . . .
Mallory hopes to unveil her new B&B just in time for her first ceremony as a wedding planner. The renovations to Thistle Park—the mansion she inherited in small-town Port Quincy, Pennsylvania—are almost complete. But what Mallory didn’t plan on is the bride’s aunt being poisoned at the wedding tasting and her perfect venue becoming a crime scene.
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(A Wedding Planner Mysteries)
ONCE UPON A MURDEROUS DELUSION
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The year is 1980 in a small, sleepy New England town. Out of nowhere, a series of devastating murders threaten the safety and well-being of the community. A serial killer has begun a deadly game of catch-me-if-you-can with local police, who have dubbed the carnage, “The Mommy Murders.”
Frightened residents are certain the violent rape/murders are in some way connected to the psychiatric unit of Parkhirst General Hospital. Nella, a nurse angst-ridden by her service during the Vietnam War, is new to the area and the hospital. She joins the tight-knit group of nurses on the evening shift. Val, the leader of the group, with her own history of trauma, believes it stems from the prejudice their patients suffer from a community unsympathetic to mental illness. Or is evil closer to home than they think?
Lion in the Valley
by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses—and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death—have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead.
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(An Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
No More Darkness
by Stacey Wilk
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Wedding Planner Aria Scirocco has her life on track after her divorce. She’s engaged to a stable and pragmatic man. Her company is doing well, and her biggest client is getting married this weekend. Nothing can jeopardize all her hard work. Except a snowstorm derails her plans and dumps her ex-husband and their unfinished business in her path.
Hawk Egan wants his ex-wife back. When the storm strands Aria, he jumps at the opportunity to come to her rescue. Getting stuck in a hotel without power is a bonus. As long as the snow continues to fall, he has a shot to make her love him again.
For the first time in her life, Aria takes a chance and invites Hawk into her bed. But when the snow stops, and the power comes back on, she will have to choose between the man who lights the way, and the one who has left her in the dark.
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(Winter at the Shore Mysteries)
Burning Down Boise
by Franklin Horton
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sometimes the story of an apocalypse isn’t one of tragedy, but one of opportunity…
Dan Slaughter has given up on appearances. With his wife dead and his kids grown, he’s slowly reverting back to the east Tennessee boy he used to be three decades earlier. He quit cutting his hair and started smoking pot. He drinks when he wants to and sings along with the classic songs of his lost youth.
When his childhood friend Carl dies suddenly, Dan agrees to help Carl’s mother with the estate, even when it means traveling across the country to Boise, Idaho. Worse yet, Dan has to fly and that’s no easy task for a paranoid hillbilly not used to following rules.
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(The Way of Dan Mysteries)
The Naked Viscount
by Sally MacKenzie
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A Lady formerly on the prowl for a husband lands herself a prowler in this Regency romance by the author of The Naked Baron.
After eight Seasons in London, Lady Jane Parker-Roth is ready to quit the dull search for a husband in favor of more exciting pursuits. So when she encounters an intruder in her host’s townhouse, she’s not about to let the scoundrel escape. Until she discovers she’s wrestling a viscount—Edmund Smyth, the one noble she wouldn’t mind meeting in the dark. And when their struggle shatters a randy statue of the god Pan, even more mischief ensues . . .
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(Naked Nobility Mysteries)
The Hometown Hero
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eighteen years ago his father disappeared, and Owen swore to keep that night a secret. But sometimes, secrets get revealed in the most scandalous of ways.
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you a shocking O’Connell family novel that is filled with family secrets, romance and suspense when a brother’s secret is exposed, opening up old wounds and creating a scandal that could rock the community.
“As the mystery of what happened at the school deepens, loyalties to family and friends are tested.” Rebmay
Owen O’Connell has always been the responsible older brother.
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(The O’Connells 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.
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
In Hot Water
by Kate Kingsbury
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint, English-accented shop on the Oregon coast. But on the eve of the tearoom’s second anniversary, the dream turns nightmarish when a man falls to his death from a hotel balcony.
The body belongs to Dean Ramsey, ex-husband of Vivian’s assistant, Jenna. Detective Tony Messina quickly zeroes in on Jenna as prime suspect, since she was seen leaving the hotel shortly before the body was found.
A Beaufont Collection
by Sarah Noffke, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The Mysterious Plato: Who would suspect that one of the most powerful entities in the world is a black and white cat? Few know that most historical events in the last several centuries were orchestrated by this innocuous feline. Plato isn’t an ordinary cat. He’s a magical lynx with extraordinary powers…
The Fantastic Lunis: Dragons were created to bring justice to the world—but some do way more than that. When Lunis, the wise-cracking, bad joke-telling dragon, is summoned to Mexico, he doesn’t hesitate to answer the call. It just so happens that he’s been lured there under false pretenses.
The Phenomenal Faraday: A mystery like no other can only be solved by one. A talking squirrel. When a scientific mystery comes into question, there’s no one better for the case than Faraday—the squirrel who knows the complexities hidden from most.
Waverly Hills Incursion
by Bryce Warren
Rating: 3.9 #ad
“Whatever roams the hallways up on the Hill . . . it isn’t alone.”
Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been converted into apartments. But only half of it is completed because of the bad economy. Ben Clausen, an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville, is moving in because the rent is so cheap. There’s a reason why. Waverly Hills is still haunted.
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
by Rhys Bowen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
It’s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she’s proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway’s brightest stars and Fifth Avenue’s richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she’s going to work more than one case at a time, then she’s going to need some help. Molly’s beau, the recently and wrongly suspended police captain Daniel Sullivan, would make an ideal associate, but before they can agree on the terms of his employment, they stumble upon a young woman lying unconscious in the middle of a snow-covered Central Park.
Double Mint
by Gretchen Archer
Rating: 4.7 #ad
NEW MONEY, OLD SINS, AND BACK TO JAIL
It’s convention season at the Bellissimo Resort and Casino, and Davis Way barely notices. It’s hard to pay attention when you live in a Jambalaya Junkyard. But when Special Events Coordinator Holder Darby walks out the backdoor just as five hundred Alabama bankers pour in the front, Davis steps up. Her reward? A cat.
(A cat?) Not only has the convention director vanished, but a Bellissimo guest is missing. One who forgot to pack the million dollars he left in the bathtub. It looks like our redhead newlywed Super Secret Spy’s lazy summer is over for sure when the Bellissimo vault is robbed.
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(A Davis Way Crime Caper Mysteries)
The Murder List
by Jackie Kabler
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The brand new psychological thriller from the author of Am I Guilty, The Perfect Couple and The Happy Family
When Mary receives a blank diary as a present, she thinks nothing of it. Until she opens the diary, and sees it’s not blank after all…
1st January MURDER LISA, OXFORD
1st February MURDER JANE, BIRMINGHAM
1st March MURDER DAVID, CARDIFF
1st April MURDER MARY, CHELTENHAM
Is this a sick joke? But…it’s the end of January now. And a woman called Lisa was murdered in Oxford on 1st January.
Could there really be a killer out there, planning to commit a new murder each month? And is the Mary due to be killed on 1st April her?
Redemption
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.0 #ad
She tried to stop the blood, but it only flowed faster. “Shannon, find Noble Scott. Tell him what’s happened. He needs to know that Creed Conway is alive.”
“Yes. I promise I’ll find him.”
Fourteen years ago, Creed Conway took everything from him. Today, Noble Scott will fight to stop him from doing it again.
Creed Conway had a reputation to uphold. Pain. Death. Destruction.
Revel In You
by Scarlett Se Leva
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Simone Goodman. The only girl I’ve loved. Until she ripped my heart out.
It’s been five years since I’ve laid eyes on her. Five years since she was mine.
I told myself never again. But truth be told I still yearn to indulge in her. To get lost in her touch.
I plan to own the one thing she’s denied me. Her heart.