Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Up to No Gouda
by Linda Reilly
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Back in Balsam Dell to heal after the death of her husband, Carly Hale is finally pursuing her lifelong dream – opening Carly’s Grilled Cheese Eatery. After only five months, business is booming as Vermont vacationers and townspeople alike flock to lunch on her Party Havartis and other grilled cheese concoctions. All but Lyle Bagley, Carly’s one-time high school boyfriend and now town bully who just bought the building that houses her eatery and wants Carly out. After a muenster of a fight, Carly’s forced to put her nose to the rind and find a solution to keep her business afloat.
Red-Line: The Shift
by J. T. Bishop
Rating: 4.6 #ad
After a difficult year, Sarah Randolph is living a solitary life. But after meeting a handsome stranger, she’s hopeful her luck is about to change. When their first date turns dangerous though, she’ll discover that she’s the one about to change…in more ways than she can imagine.
After that frightening encounter, John Ramsey will be forced to remove Sarah from her quiet existence. He’ll risk everything, including himself and the lives of the group he’s assembled, to keep her alive and prevent an unexpected rival from using her for his own cruel desires.
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(Red-Line Mysteries)
Strawberry Shortcake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cozy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, bakery owner Hannah Swensen is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-cold dead, facedown in Hannah’s celebrated strawberry shortcake, Lake Eden’s sweet ride to fame turns very sour indeed.
While perfecting her Cheddar Cheese Apple Pie and Chocolate Crunchies, Hannah’s also snooping into the coach’s private life, which yields plenty of suspects.
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(Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
In Blood and Duty Bound
by Erin S. Bales
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When there are several paths before you, which one will you choose? Princess Renn, the youngest of six and fourth in line for the throne, is a lost young woman searching for direction. Palace Guard Getha is on the road to joining the most elite fighting force in the country, but she must battle for every step.
Lady Helenia was forced to leave her homeland in disgrace, so she travels through the shadows in the hopes of emerging back into the light.
For four hundred years, the Fallen of Ombratos have lived in safety, secure behind the wall they call the Gift. However, there are few things in the world more fragile than peace. A single bloody event will shake a nation to its core and set these women on the paths leading to their destinies.
The Hidden
by Melanie Golding
Rating: 4.1 #ad
One dark December night, in a small seaside town, a little girl is found abandoned. When her mother finally arrives, authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off.
Gregor, a seemingly single man, is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment, but the discovery of children’s toys raises more questions than answers.
Every night, Ruby gazes into Gregor’s apartment, leading to the discovery of his secret family: his unusually silent daughter and his mentally unstable wife, Constance, who insists that she is descended from the mythological Selkies. She begs Ruby to aid in finding the sealskin that Gregor has hidden from her, making it impossible to return to her people.
Not My Mother
by Miranda Smith
Rating: 4.3 #ad
What if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you?
I’d heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother’s arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying by the swimming pool, the open window in the nursery. But I never dreamed it had anything to do with me.
Today, my beautiful daughter turned one. We were unwrapping gifts and blowing out candles when the knock came at the door, and they took my mother away.
Return to Redemption
by Jack R. Stanley
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A brand new Western adventure from Jack R. Stanley!
A Confederate officer returned to his home and ranch in Texas. He discovered his whole world was in ruin. His ranch was falling down and his young bride had become a whore. Everyone he knew has been damaged by the war and he has scars from the conflict himself. He must find a way to survive – and if he can, help those around him who have been forever altered. Is that possible?
Night Broken
by Patricia Briggs
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When her mate’s ex-wife storms back into their lives, Mercy knows something isn’t right. Christy has the furthest thing from good intentions—she wants Adam back, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get him, including turning the pack against Mercy.
Mercy isn’t about to step down without a fight, but there’s a more dangerous threat circling. As the bodies start piling up, she must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart.
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(Mercy Thompson Mysteries)
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in First Class
by Helena Dixon
Rating: 4.4 #ad
All aboard a train bound for… murder.
Kitty Underhay is looking forward to a week of long lunches and wedding planning with her husband-to-be, Captain Matthew Bryant. But the plan is derailed when he is called on to collect a former comrade-in-arms, arriving on the 15:50 from Bakerloo. As the train bearing Simon Travers pulls up to the platform, a piercing scream rises over the screech of its brakes. Travers is dead in his seat, a dagger in his heart.
Who gave this defenceless man a one-way ticket to the next life? And why? And could Matt’s close connection put him at risk? Only a few individuals had access to Travers’s compartment, and Kitty must find out which of these seemingly benign passengers is in fact a cross-country killer.
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(A Miss Underhay Mysteries)
The Resentment
by T. O. Paine
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An Emotional Thriller With a Shocking Twist
“An energetic, enthralling tale of dangerous family secrets.” – Kirkus Reviews
Lauren Kaine has everything she ever wanted — a fabulous home, a shiny Lexus, a bright sixteen-year-old son, and a loving husband with a lucrative internet career. Tonight, she walks hand-in-hand with William beneath the lustrous Seattle sky, celebrating twenty-two years of marriage.
But they’re not alone.
A mysterious black Audi comes out of nowhere and chases William onto a bridge. He shouts, “They’re here for the card,” and falls to his death. Enraged, Lauren attacks the car, but the tinted windows hide the driver’s face, and it speeds away.
Running with the Enemy
by Lloyd Lofthouse
Rating: 4.2 #ad
While serving in Vietnam, Ethan Card, a loyal U.S. Marine, is framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Labeled a traitor, he’s on the run, desperate to prove his innocence, or he’ll never go home again. Ethan has a choice to make, save the Vietnamese woman he loves from two murdering psychopaths, or prove his innocence. He can’t have both.
“Ethan Card, a Marine fighting in Vietnam, is about to become a patsy for a cruel, power hungry rogue CIA agent who only wants to cover up his own crimes…” by Amazon Customer
Dragon Teeth
by Michael Crichton
Rating: 4.2 #ad
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition…
Escape from Yokai Land
by Stross Charles
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Escape from Yokai Land explains what he was doing there.
Bob’s been assigned to work with the Miyamoto Group, checking the wards that lock down Japan’s warded sites—a task previously handled by his predecessor Dr. Angleton, the Eater of Souls. This mostly involves policing yokai: traditional magical beings, increasingly grown more annoying and energetic.
But then Bob’s simple trip turns into a deadly confrontation with the ultimate yokai. It’s massively powerful. It’s pink. And it says “Hello.”
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(Laundry Files Mysteries)
Servant of The Skull
by Edita A. Petrick
Rating: 4.0 #ad
History at your fingertips can be a dangerous thing…
Gia was sixteen years old when a terrifying jumble of images invaded her head. The swirl of lives lived was horrifying and fascinating at once. The former made her conceal her gift with education. She became a student of history—forensic reconstructive specialist. It was the only way she could let her talent drive her hands—to recreate images of those who lived, loved and lost their lives thousands of years ago. The latter made her accept a dangerous consulting job in Greece.
It sounded simple: Reconstruct skulls of three plane crash victims. Positive identification was needed for insurance purposes. A tragic, but seemingly routine job of identification. Except her extraordinary abilities show her it’s anything but…
Untamed
by James Leonard
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Lawman Nathan Pace was looking forward to retirement. Until the Thrasher brothers forced him back into action.
One minute, Nathan was talking to a pretty girl on the train. The next, they were off the tracks and surrounded by Brent Thrasher’s men. Or is it?
When the smoke cleared, Nathan’s mother and brother were dead…
By the time they run into each other again, Nathan’s not alone. He’s joined by Sarah Meade, a beautiful woman intent on seeking revenge against Brent Thrasher. Together, they chase the brothers down. But getting to the outlaws isn’t as easy or as straightforward as they’d hoped. The Thrashers have a gang of men ready to do their bidding.
Real Murders
by Charlaine Harris
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Author of the books that inspired True Blood on HBO and Midnight, Texas on NBC
Aurora Teagarden, small town librarian and true crime buff, is looking forward to the monthly meeting of the Real Murders Society, a group of fellow crime enthusiasts who share a unique interest in historical murders. The Society meetings are the highlight of Roe’s social life in sleepy Lawrenceville, Georgia, and she’s ready for a quiet night of discussion, coffee, and cookies. But after she finds the body of a Society member in a staged crime scene eerily similar to the one the group was supposed to discuss that very night, Roe finds herself at the center of a murderous story of her own.
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(An Aurora Teagarden Mysteries)