Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Murder in the Locked Library
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.4 #ad
With her twins, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, back in school, Jane Steward can finally focus on her work again—managing Storyton Hall, and breaking ground on the resort’s latest attraction: a luxurious, relaxing spa named in honor of Walt Whitman. But when the earth is dug up to start laying the spa’s foundation, something else comes to the surface—a collection of unusual bones and the ragged remnants of a very old book. The attendees of the Rare Book Conference are eager to assist Jane with this unexpected historical mystery—until a visitor meets an untimely end in the Henry James Library.
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(A Book Retreat Mysteries)
Time After Tyme
by Kay DiBianca
Rating: 4.5 #ad
WITH TIME ALL THINGS ARE REVEALED
Nancy Drew meets Tom Sawyer in this delightful and thought-provoking romp through the third book in The Watch Series of clean mysteries. Secret codes and university intrigue combine to give Kathryn Frasier and Cece Goldman a new and puzzling mystery to solve. But things get dicey when two misguided young girls wander into the middle of the investigation and decide to solve it themselves.
Can Kathryn and Cece decipher the codes and protect the youngsters before the killer strikes again?
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(The Watch Mysteries)
A Bride’s Love And Her Daughter’s Hope
by Florence Linnington
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Harriet is running for her life, and she is fleeing with her daughter, to the Old West. When Harriet’s unfaithful husband dies, her wealthy mother-in-law threatens to take her child Alyssa away. Harriet is pushed to make a snap decision and flees out west with Alyssa.
As the mother and daughter duo head into uncertainty, Harriet is prepared to gamble on another uncertainty – seeking a matchmaking agency to help her marry a stranger and learn how to live in the wild west.
Bounty hunter Collin Crawford is a man who needs nothing and no one. While he tries to convince himself that he is merely returning criminals to face justice, his faith in the work is beginning to waver.
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(Frontier Women Mysteries)
Camp Blaze
by Jon Athan
Rating: 4.0 #ad
At Camp Blaze – a camp with a history of violent tragedy – a group of counselors are stalked and slaughtered by a masked killer. However, due to the missing bodies, the murders are treated as disappearances. ‘Perhaps they’ve ran off to elope,’ the authorities suggest. But, as the disappearances continue to mount, Regina Park – the head counselor – begins to suspect foul play and she fears the killer may be closer than they think…
Jon Athan, the author of Night of the Prowler and Do Not Disturb, invites you to spend a night at Camp Blaze in this brutal throwback to classic ‘80s slashers.
The Order of Vengeance
by Alex J. Fischer
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Getting even is all that matters for the motorcycle club aptly named the Order of Vengeance. Follow the band of outlaws as they live the life they’ve chosen.
Dealing illicit goods isn’t all fun and games. Opposing organizations, interlopers, and trouble all seem to follow the group. Just another day in the life of a 1%er outlaw biker.
The Lost Jewels
by Kirsty Manning
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return?
Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she’s on the brink of the experience of a lifetime.
But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Back in Boston, Kate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother’s papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie’s secret life in Edwardian London?
Devious
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When New Orleans detective Reuben Montoya is called to investigate the murder of a nun, he’s shocked to recognize the victim. Sister Camille was his high school girlfriend. And she’s just been found on the altar of St. Marguerite’s cathedral…viciously garroted.
Before devoting herself to god, Camille had a knack for making bad choices. She joined the convent after falling for her sister Valerie’s soon-to-be ex-husband. But as Val—a former Texas cop—digs into Camille’s murder, she realizes how little she really knew about her sister and their shared past.
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(A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya Mysteries)
The Third Realm
by Michael Chatfield
Rating: 4.6 #ad
With the third realm new challenges arise. Erik searches for Old Hei while Rugrat deals with his broken mana system. For both, their path takes them towards the alchemist association’s trial.
They didn’t mean to get into trouble, they swear, but in the ten realms trouble is not far behind the duo. They’ll have to fight across the third realm to complete the alchemist association’s trial.
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(The Ten Realms Mysteries)
Blood Victory
by Christopher Rice
Rating: 4.5 #ad
As the test subject of an experimental drug, Charlotte Rowe was infused with extraordinary powers. As the secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, she baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks. But it takes more than fear to trigger what’s coursing through Charlotte’s blood. She needs to be terrorized. Serial killer Cyrus Mattingly is up to the task.
Cyrus is a long-haul truck driver, and his cargo bay is a gallery of horrors on wheels. To stop his bloodshed, Charlotte will become his next victim, reining in her powers so she can face each of his evils in turn.
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(The Burning Girl Mysteries)
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Knot Ready for Murder
by Mary Marks
Rating: 4.7 #ad
One loose thread threatens to unravel Martha’s wedding plans: the groom-to-be married a pregnant teen to save her from scandal thirty years ago – and the marriage was never annulled. Now Crusher’s wife Hadas is coming to LA, along with his sister Fanya. But soon after she arrives, their houseguest goes missing, with her room ransacked and a chloroform-soaked cloth left behind. Could her apparent abduction be connected to her brother’s unsolved death from a hit-and-run six months ago? Martha and her quilting cohorts must find the pattern to solve the twin mysteries and determine if Crusher is still married—or now a widower . . .
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(A Quilting Mysteries)
Blood Moon
by Linda Castillo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder confronts a mysterious beast terrorizing the residents of Painters Mill in this original short mystery “Blood Moon” from bestselling author Linda Castillo.
On a foggy spring night, an Amish man crashes his buggy after a large, unidentified animal spooks his horse. Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the man shaken and bleeding, claiming he was attacked by a large beast. But his description of the creature sounds like something straight out of the Amish folklore from Kate’s childhood. Throughout the night, more incidents of an aggressive animal on the loose are reported, putting the citizens of Painters Mill on edge.
The Evil Ex-Wife
by Linda Pohl
Rating: 4.8 #ad
When Max returns home from the Vietnam War earlier than expected, he finds his beloved wife, Helen, in their marital bed with her lover. Adultery is the one thing that Max will not forgive. Served with divorce papers, Helen goes into a rage, crumples the legal document and vows that, if it takes her a lifetime, she will have her revenge and reclaim everything she believes is rightfully hers.
Helen remarries a prominent attorney, Morris, and moves several states away. Yet, her compulsion to get revenge is so great that she never stops sending letters, phoning and following Max. With her aging mother living not far from Max, she harasses him and his second wife, Joan, whenever she visits.
Dead of Winter
by Annelise Ryan
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A medical examiner is pulled into a case of human trafficking in this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Ringer.
Before medicolegal death investigator Mattie can smooth out the unexpected chaos of her new home, new marriage, and new family, duty calls. At the local ER, a battered and bruised teenage girl has been brought in by a mysterious man who claimed she’d fallen out of a car. The staff is suspicious, but while they attend to the teenager, the unidentified man slips out. Then the girl dies, but not before informing social worker Hildy Schneider that the man had her little sister as well.
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(A Mattie Winston Mysteries)
Test of Magnitude
by Andy Kasch
Rating: 4.2 #ad
“Revenge is only justice when it can be administered without hatred.”
The spectacular Cardinal-4 space station overlooks Amulen and Banor, twin worlds sharing the same orbit. It is the pinnacle of Torian achievement and a wonder of the Erobian Sphere. But not all foreign visitors are arriving with pure intent.
A Torian half-breed suspected of being the first prophet in 300 years warns of an evil infection in the galaxy. It comes in the form of a game. He also pushes the radical agenda of reviving a primitive group of aliens from a planet outside the sphere known as Earth.
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(The Torian Reclamation Mysteries)
Keep Me In Your Heart
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.8 #ad
A Friessen family celebration turns tragic when the marriage of one daughter is preceded by the heartbreaking loss of another.
Three days before Sara Friessen’s wedding, her older sister, Chelsea, who is married to the son of a notorious criminal, disappears without a trace. The police have no leads, and her husband, Alaric Taft, has also gone missing. To find the couple, the Friessens must come face to face with the kind of deadly underworld they had never expected would touch their family.
Andy Friessen lives and breathes only one thing: protecting his family. He soon discovers the secret behind what has happened to his eldest daughter, and he’s plunged into a cat and mouse game, stonewalled at every turn by authorities who are supposed to be helping him…
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(The Friessens Mysteries)
A Life Stolen
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A Life Stolen is the gripping account of a father and daughter’s devastating, but inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. It’s an inside look into the day-to-day challenges facing not only the patient, but also the caregivers. For many years, her father exhibited signs of dementia, eventually becoming too significant to ignore. Everything culminated during an incident one night, after which her father was taken away, never to return to his home again. The disease changed him every day until he was a stranger. Then, it stole his life.
Through the initial days at home to hospital stays, living in a memory care unit, rehab stints and eventually hospice care, this book reveals many of the struggles encountered while facing Alzheimer’s in a world not quite ready for it.
Choose Me
by Tess Gerritsen, Gary Braver
Rating: 4.2 #ad
From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets.
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide—or a motive for her murder…
Emperor’s Throne
by Shannon Mayer
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Three against one is not the best odds in any fight. But does she dare gamble on making an enemy into an ally?
The sixth installment in the USAT and WSJ bestselling Desert Cursed series blends epic and urban fantasy in a way that does not disappoint.
There might be no rest for the wicked, but there’s no rest for the exhausted either. We’ve barely survived one fight, and we have another blade at our throats-strike that, three blades. I can see only one possible chance at surviving the three evils we face, no matter how much I might hate it. I have to make my peace with one of them and pray that they will help me take down the other two before we turn on each other.
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(The Desert Cursed Mysteries)