Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Cookies & Chance Mysteries Boxed Set Vol. I
by Catherine Bruns
Rating: 4.5 #ad
From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes a boxed set of three full-length mysteries featuring baker turned sleuth Sally Muccio. This boxed set includes the first three novels – and tasty recipes! – from the #1 bestselling Cookies & Chance series, including:
Tastes Like Murder
Baked to Death
Burned to a Crisp
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(Cookies & Chance Mysteries Boxed Set Mysteries)
Or Else
by Joe Hart
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A secret love becomes a fatal affair in a twisting novel of suspense by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Joe Hart.
When novelist Andy Drake returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father, a reconnection with his childhood friend Rachel escalates into a secret love affair. For Rachel, struggling to maintain the facade of a picture-perfect life, it’s an escape from an emotionally abusive marriage. Then Andy receives an anonymous note warning him to end the affair. Or else.
Whoever’s been watching is going to make Andy pay. Weeks later, Rachel’s husband, David, is shot to death. Rachel and her two young sons vanish without a trace. One misstep, one careless reveal, and Andy could look as guilty as sin. Clue by clue, as his investigation into the mystery unfolds, Andy discovers that he and Rachel weren’t the only ones keeping secrets.
Legacy of the Shadow’s Blood Complete Series
by E. G. Bateman, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sometimes, you just can’t escape your past no matter how hard you try.
Lexi is learning that the hard way and it’s not long before old enemies are trying to catch up with her.
Then there’s her nemesis…
Grab the complete boxed set today to join Lexi and her friends on their supernatural investigations today!
Night-Gaunts
by Joyce Carol Oates
Rating: 4.2 #ad
In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself – as demonstrated in these six stories.
One tale opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper’s Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door.
Bloodstream
by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father’s death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town’s teenagers.
As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence.
Voodoo and Vampires
by Theophilus Monroe
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When one of the world’s most gifted witches becomes a vampire, you’d be wise to heed this advice: Don’t f*** with her. I’m supposed to seduce and assassinate the vampire king…
He’s defied the new vampire council. The Voodoo Queen has evoked Erzulie, the Loa of Love, to render him susceptible to my allure. Once I’ve enthralled the king my orders are to stake him and cast a spell to harness the power that lingers in his blood.
But there’s one problem… He has enthralled me instead.
Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not
by Dean Koontz
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Instinct and violent visions compel Nameless to embark on an unplanned mission to help a desperate mother and daughter on the run. Why is this rescue so strangely familiar to a man with no memories?
Evie and her daughter, Asteria, are fleeing an abusive cult when they meet a stranger in an abandoned Arizona shopping mall. Fate hasn’t set Nameless on their trail. It’s a premonition, and a chance to make reparations for a failure from his past he can’t even remember. This time, Nameless must do everything in his power not to fail those who trust him with their lives.
The Lost Queen
by Traci Lovelot
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A group of Fae warriors kidnapped me to take me to their enchanted realm.
Forever an outcast who ruined technology with a touch, my ailment only got worse in college. Now I know why: I’m not human.
These seductive Fae warriors are irresistible and they want me as their queen… but my new royal guards have their own secrets. If they won’t tell their future queen everything, then they can’t be trusted.
Someone killed the other heirs to the throne, and I might be next.
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(Our Fae Queen Mysteries)
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Fishers of Menace
by Wendy Heuvel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Banford, where townsfolk are family, tea is hot, and murder is inevitable.
Cassie Bridgestone’s life is simple. Along with running her country décor shop, she loves to cuddle her cat, sip tea, attend church, and watch birds.
But then, things go awry. First, the handsome but mysterious Daniel opens a bookstore in her building and challenges her to face long-buried feelings about her previous relationship. Then, a friendly fishing tournament turns deadly and her friend is accused of murder, throwing Cassie’s world into a tailspin she might never recover from.
Unless she finds the real killer.
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(Faith and Foils Cozy Mysteries)
Every Little Lie
by Alexandria Clarke
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After revealing a big secret, Calamity James is on the outs with the one person she can always rely on: her sister. As the Red River Founders Celebration approaches, descendants of the town’s original settlers are mysteriously targeted for murder, and Cal hunts down a ghost with a grudge.
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(A Calamity James Mysteries)
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing! Experience the Origin of a Prophet …
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike.
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(Within & Without Time Mysteries)
Winterset Hollow
by Jonathan Durham
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle.
Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book—a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they find that much of what the world believes to be fiction is actually fact, and that the truth behind their beloved story is darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. It’s Barley Day . . . and you’re invited to the hunt.
The Unheard
by Nicci French
Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls “razor sharp,” a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture – but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything.
Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It’s not that Jason is a bad father – it just hurts to see him enjoying married life with someone else. Still, she owes it to her daughter Poppy to make this arrangement work.
But Poppy returns from the weekend tired and withdrawn. And when she shows Tess a crayon drawing – an image so simple and violent that Tess can hardly make sense of it – Poppy can only explain with the words, “He did kill her.”
Tents, Trails and Turmoil
by Tonya Kappes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky~ where nothing is normal.
Mae West knows tourism and nothing stops tourists like a dead body found in the Daniel Boone National Park.Unfortunately, Yaley Woodard, a local tour guide, is found dead at Happy Trails Campground.
Mae is determined to put her amateur sleuth skills to investigate along with the help of the Laundry Club gals. But when Yaley’s past ends up being tied to forest trails and local Joel Grassel,
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(A Camper & Criminals Coz Mysteries)
Under Your Spell Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Your favorite fairy tales … with a twist. What happens when you can’t choose between Prince Charming and the Dragon? What if Goldilocks really wanted to stay? Was the Big Bad Wolf really that bad?
Thirteen titillating stories from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors in a spicy collection curated by The New Romance Café. HEA guaranteed.
A Skein of Murder
by Patti Benning
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dark and stormy nights can be murder. The last thing alpaca farmer, avid crocheter, and amateur sleuth, Josephina Thompson, expects to see in the middle of a summer storm is a stranger at her front door, muttering about a car accident that he witnessed and demanding her help.
Jo braves the rain and thunder and hurries to the scene of the accident, only to discover a dead woman and a mysterious figure watching them through the downpour.
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(Homespun Crochet Cozy Mysteries)