Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Curious Case of Florence Winters
by May Bridges
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A kidnapping in New York City’s illustrious high society, and the inquisitive young woman who’s determined to redeem her family’s good name. Will she outsmart the culprit, even after another person winds up dead?
New York City, 1925. Florence Winters is ready to escape the whispers about her.
Stuck in small-town Ohio, she’s done living the spinster life and ready to move on to greener pastures, so when her wealthy and slightly eccentric Aunt Julia requests Florence’s companionship in New York City—she knows it’s an offer she can’t refuse.
But she has no idea what awaits her in Aunt Julia’s ravishing brownstone in the West Village. Secret meetings. Secret passages. Secretive house staff. Even Aunt Julia’s cat seems to have something to hide!
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(Florence Winters Mysteries)
Try Again
by Wesley Southard
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After an exhausting day at work and a run-in with an obnoxious loudmouth at the gym, all Robin Bellamy wants is to go home and unwind with her father. But when she reaches their house, she discovers something is very wrong. Several armed men appear to be waiting inside, and they’re threatening her father’s life. However, there’s a bigger problem:
The house itself won’t let her in.
After trying numerous times, Robin realizes there may only be one right way into her own home. Can she uncover the correct route in and through the house before the trespassers even know she’s there?
The Girl Who Survived
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A BRAND NEW RELEASE
Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl?
All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie – who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving command: Don’t make a sound.
The Dee Valley Killings
by Simon McCleave
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A twisted serial killer. A deadly game of cat and mouse. Can DI Ruth Hunter catch a crazed psychopath who seems intent on destroying her life?
DI Ruth Hunter hopes that settling in Snowdonia with will melt away the grief of a missing partner. Burying herself in her work, she senses that her current missing persons case isn’t all that it seems. When a man’s body turns up torn to pieces, Ruth realises that she is now tracking a deadly serial killer.
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(A DI Ruth Hunter Mysteries)
Bloodline
by Jess Lourey
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad…
In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she’s eager to settle down. Lilydale’s motto, “Come Home Forever,” couldn’t be more inviting.
And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village.
The Perfect Wife
by JP Delaney
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss.
She is a miracle of science.
Finding Courage
by Anne Perreault
Rating: 4.7 #ad
How does anyone survive the brutal murder of a parent and beloved sister?
Nicolette Dubois survived the vicious attack that claimed the lives of those she loved most. She has turned her life around, achieving her dream of becoming a successful horse trainer. Things are running smoothly. One might say, she’s found a measure of happiness. Until… she is hunted by a perpetrator from her past and must find courage to rebuild her life.
K-9 handler, Blake Matheson, is Nicolette’s best friend. When Nicolette’s life is threatened, Blake and his canine partner Jax must give everything to rescue her. However, he fails to keep the one promise to the woman he has come to love when she needs him the most.
The Birth of Rage
by J. Shanee Byers
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Uneque Jones has to face the reality that she made a rash decision to let go of Charles, the man she loves. She manages to cope by surrounding herself with friends, work and even a fling. But Charles has a lover, too. He just doesn’t know it yet. Will they be able to withstand the challenges that arise, or will they fail at their second chance?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Book of Candlelight
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the new Secret, Book, and Scone Society novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams, the rain in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, has been relentless—and a flood of trouble is about to be unleashed . . .
Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds new customers for her store, Miracle Books. Since a little rain never hurt anyone, Nora rides her bike over to the flea market one sodden day and buys a bowl from Danny, a Cherokee potter. But the next day, after Miracle River overflows its banks, and Danny’s body is found floating within the churning waters, Nora decides it’s time for the Secret, Book, and Scone Society to spring into action.
A Ruin of Roses
by K.F. Breene
Rating: 4.3 #ad
I could save him, but he would ruin me.
The beast. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. The dragon prince. He has suffered a fate worse than death. We all have. A curse put upon us by the mad king.
We are a kingdom locked in time. Shifters unable to feel our animals. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. The last dragon shifter.
He’s our hope. He’s my nightmare.
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(Deliciously Dark Fairytales Mysteries)
The Best of Friends
by Lucinda Berry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An unthinkable tragedy forever changes a group of teens and turns family against family in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that begs to be read in one sitting.
Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent’s nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak.
Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb?
Journeys
by Jeanne Roland
Rating: 4.9 #ad
A barracks full of beautiful boys. A girl in disguise, living among them.
It’s the 14th century, and the longbow is king. But in the northern European principality of Ardennes, archery isn’t just the nation’s defense. It’s the national obsession.
MEET THE JOURNEYS
12 young Journeyman archers, the best in the country
2 years of public competitions, in which looks count almost as much as ability
6 will win a coveted membership in the Archers’ Guild of St. Sebastian
1 will become the prince’s new Guardsman
Unsigned Card Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s a hoot-and-a-half when Rik Patience – who has no patience – sets out to discover why a “hot” guy at her church refuses to sign the pastor’s birthday card and ends up as a suspect in a murder investigation.
Rik engages the over-sixties members of the Closure Club book reading and mystery-solving group – who refuse to let the grey streaks in their hair define them – in her quest to answer the question – why does her secret heartthrob refuse to sign anything? Is he in witness protection, or is he a criminal?
Before Rik solves that mystery, she finds a body behind his house; is tackled by a ‘black bear’; is accused of poisoning an obnoxious woman who attends her church; and is threatened with the confiscation of her wild animal rescues—a fox, raccoon, jaguarondi, squirrel, and raven.
Twentieth Anniversary Screening
by Jeff Strand
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This mockumentary-style dark comedy recounts the grisly events surrounding the terrible slasher flick THE ROOFER, remembered only because an obsessed fan tried to reenact the murders as they played out on the screen. When the same theater shows the film twenty years later, will the warnings that this is a really, really bad idea be justified?
Bright Triad
by Daniel Zeigler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A gene therapy project to cure the criminal mind. A monster on the loose. A desperate race to understand.
35-year-old philosophy professor Rand Aroyan is a smart, witty rising star in the field of medical ethics. But when Bright Triad–a project to cure psychopaths with mRNA therapy–instead creates a murderer, Rand becomes obsessed with identifying the killer.
As he teams with a homicide detective, a psychologist, and a charismatic ex-pastor, Rand is forced to grapple with questions of faith and reason, science and religion–and to confront his own deepest fears.
Ranging from funny to thought-provoking to chilling, Bright Triad will appeal to fans of speculative, psychological, and suspense fiction.
Don’t Stop Me
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fifteen years ago, Vic McCabe was headed down a one-way road to destruction with the love of his life. But then the unthinkable happened, a mistake that changed their lives forever.
Successful billionaire contractor Vic McCabe is a man every woman wants, but he gives his heart to no one. However, one day a reporter shows up, asking questions about a past he’s buried, a mistake he made fifteen years ago that could destroy his future and that of the woman he’s tried to forget.
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(The McCabe Brothers)
Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)
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(The Murderbot Diaries Mysteries)