Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat of the Baskervilles
by Vicki Delany
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Legendary stage and movie star Sir Nigel Bellingham arrives on Cape Cod to star in a stage production of The Hound of the Baskervilles put on by the West London Theater Festival. When Sir Nigel, some of the cast, and the director visit the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop at 222 Baker Street, Gemma Doyle realizes that Sir Nigel is not at all suited to the role. He is long past his prime and an old drunk to boot.
The cast, in particular the much younger actor who previously had the role, are not happy, but the show must go on.
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(A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mysteries)
To the River’s End
by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rating: 4.4 #ad
TO THE RIVER’S END
Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River – the longest in North America – all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of the brave men chosen for the job – and one of the few to survive…
Deep Focus
by Gloria Repp
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A scheming woman. A man she can’t fathom. A mystery that endangers her career. Is this how God answers Lindsey’s prayers?
Lindsey Dumont, photographer, travels to the rugged coast of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to finish her photo essay on a rare breed of Makah dogs.But disaster looms for her project, and she decides to fight back. Now she must confront the man who deceived her and unravel a threatening mystery.
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(The Dumont Chronicles)
Deck Z: The Titanic
by Chris Pauls, Matt Solomon
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Desperate to keep a terrifying new virus out of the wrong hands, a German scientist smuggles the lone sample onto the RMS Titanic. But he’s followed by a government agent, and the ensuing spy games unleash a zombie plague.
With the 2,200 passengers sailing to New York, Capt. Edward Smith and his inner circle desperately try to contain the growing horde. Smith’s team is forced into bloody hand-to-hand combat down the narrow halls of the huge steamer. In its few short days at sea, the majestic Titanic turns into a Victorian bloodbath, steaming at top speed toward a cold, blue iceberg.
Our Wild and Precious Lives
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In 1960 Cold War Germany, Tom and Melly McCarron, teenage Army brats, contend with adolescence on a small American base near Bavaria, where their father, a decorated war veteran, begins a three-year tour of duty. As tensions in Berlin rise between the Allies and the Soviets, and threaten to bring about World War III, the base teenagers forge bonds of loyalty and love stronger than any of the adults understand.
Leaving New York on a night flight to Germany, the quiet, thoughtful Tom, and feisty, emotional Melly, are apprehensive about life in a foreign land. While they will attend the American high school in Würzburg, brother and sister realize they are the only stability each has had in their young lives. They also leave behind the sole adult they came to trust, their Aunt Deeny, a librarian who introduced them long ago to a way to cope with life’s ups and downs—reading and books.
Twist Me
by Anna Zaires
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A man obsessed. A girl abducted. The darkest love story ever told… Kidnapped. Taken to a private island.
I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.
Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful—a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty.
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(Twist Me Series)
Something Wicked
by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A pregnant detective investigates murders tied to a strange group of women in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Wicked Lies.
You Sense Him Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it’s a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don’t know all the terrors buried within its walls… You Fear Him
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(Wicked Mysteries)
Revealing the Monster
by Amelia Hutchins, Melissa Burg
Rating: 4.7 #ad
I ended my life to protect Lucian from his enemies. It should have been the hardest decision to make, but it wasn’t. Now I find that Lucian kept even more secrets, deadly ones that threaten to destroy me. I thought I won the game that he and Katarina played, but he’s never stopped shuffling the pieces on the board. Even so, I’ve found peace in his violence and learned to accept my fate within his embrace.
As our enemies are revealed, and worlds crashed down into ours, everything is on the line again. Could we survive his latest betrayal, or would it destroy us all?
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(Playing with Monsters)
Friday’s Mystery eBooks
A Fatal Frozen Daiquiri
by Constance Barker
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Plastic Surgeons, a Real Estate Agent, Restaurant Owner and Murder
Sarah wants to tweak her face with some fillers. And there’s plenty of plastic surgeons in town to choose from. Maybe too many? Seems that way when one is murdered. Could the other doctors want to shut down the competition? Or maybe her long suffering husband had finally had enough abuse. A real estate agent, a restaurant owner, and a personal chef round out a rather large suspect pool.
Wanda is nervous for baby Robin when a snide children’s services worker keeps poking her nose into the baby’s well being. Wanda doesn’t want Robin to end up in the system, but will she have a choice in the matter?
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(Mystic Bar Mysteries)
The Girl Who Heard Demons
by Janette Rallison
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Saving his life may cost her hers. Adelle’s ability to hear demons has caused her nothing but trouble. It’s turned her into the girl everyone thinks is a freak. So when she gets a chance at a fresh start in a new high school, she’s determined not to let her secret out. A normal life is a good life.
But when she overhears supernatural voices celebrating the impending death of the school quarterback, Levi Anderson, she knows she has to do something to prevent it. However, the demons aren’t the ones plotting; they’re just celebrating the chaos, and Adelle must figure out who wants to hurt him and why.
As Adelle battles to keep Levi safe, she puts herself ever closer to danger and ever closer to falling for Levi. She’ll have to protect him and her heart, too.
No Middle Name
by Lee Child
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and eleven previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child.
No suitcase. No destination. No middle name. No matter how far Reacher travels off the beaten path, trouble always finds him. Feel bad for trouble.
Gracie and the Trouble with Pinatas
by Carol Kilgore
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What you see is not always what you get. In fact, what you see may be nothing at all.
Finding a woman attacked and left for dead in her driveway hadn’t been anywhere near San Antonio law enforcement consultant Gracie Hofner’s cold January plans. She immediately jumps into action and soon discovers a link to what appears to be a benign local research institution. Of course, what seems to be often isn’t, and it takes a series of explosive illusions that rock a small slice of the city before Gracie and her coworkers understand the fuller picture: a rogue relationship between the research group and a corrupt faction inside the Pentagon.
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(Amazing Gracie Mysteries)
The Range Rider
by Mike Mackessy
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The first adventure in a brand new series from Mike Mackessy!
In the premier story, Jarod is a drifter, trying to experience the West. Missing the shining times of the fur trade, he rides, just looking. After trying several jobs, he lands in a railroad camp digging rail-bed. He enjoys the labor until the Sioux raid the camp. The man hired as the guard runs, leaving the camp unprotected. Jarod stops the man, takes his weapons, and enters the fray. The railroad does not appreciate Jarod saving the camp. He finds himself drifting, again. He runs into a troubled young man, Cole. Together they hire on as scouts and hunters for a commercial wagon train heading for Santa Fe. Once again, his unappreciated actions send Jarod out on his own, except he and Cole made friends in the wagon train.
Through the Wall
by Patricia Wentworth
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver takes on a murder case involving a surprise inheritance and a feuding family.
Martin Brand always had a dark sense of humor. Surrounded by relatives he despised, he looked forward to the day when, dead and buried, he would no longer have to concern himself with them. As a last joke, he willed his entire fortune to a poor relation, and went to his grave a smiling man.
After years of toil caring for her layabout sister, Marion Brand is shocked to learn her unknown uncle has left her his estate. Now, she can finally be happy.
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(The Miss Silver Mysteries)
Missing
by Susan Lewis
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver takes on a murder case involving a surprise inheritance and a feuding family.
Martin Brand always had a dark sense of humor. Surrounded by relatives he despised, he looked forward to the day when, dead and buried, he would no longer have to concern himself with them. As a last joke, he willed his entire fortune to a poor relation, and went to his grave a smiling man.
After years of toil caring for her layabout sister, Marion Brand is shocked to learn her unknown uncle has left her his estate. Now, she can finally be happy.
The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money. So Garvin calls on lawyer Perry Mason to protect his company from her schemes, and ensure the divorce they’d gotten in Mexico is actually finalized.
But when Garvin’s former spouse is struck down by a killer, Mason’s client becomes the chief suspect. Fortunately, the attorney “comes up with dazzling answers” to the mystery . . .
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(The Perry Mason Mysteries)
The Chosen
by J.R. Ward
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King, is facing a brutal interrogation and torturous death at the hands of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Yet after a life marked by cruelty and evil deeds, he accepts his soldier’s fate, his sole regret the loss of a sacred female who was never his: the Chosen Layla.
Layla alone knows the truth that will save Xcor’s life. But revealing his sacrifice and his hidden heritage will expose them both and destroy everything Layla holds dear—even her role of mother to her precious young…
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(The Black Dagger Brotherhood)
Seven Brides of South Dakota Series
by Kari Trumbo
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Beau walks into her life, one glance has her running from her past. He couldn’t want someone like her. It should be easy to avoid his quiet charm.
If he can convince her she’s a prize, not prey, he might have a chance. Beau’s captivated when Ruby scrambles from him whenever he gets too close. Her sweetness is an allure he can’t fight.
Can Beau convince Ruby she is beloved?