Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Hangman’s Sonnet
by Reed Farrel Coleman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protégé, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording tape of his magnum opus, The Hangman’s Sonnet.
That same morning, an elderly Paradise woman dies while her house is being ransacked. What are the thieves looking for? And what’s the connection to Terry Jester and the mysterious missing tape?
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(A Jesse Stone Mysteries)
Her Perfect Life
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Rating: 4.0 #ad
“A powerhouse of a novel.” Mystery Scene Magazine
Everyone knows Lily Atwood―and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all―fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her own.
Lily has an anonymous source who feeds her story tips―but suddenly, the source begins telling Lily inside information about her own life. How does he―or she―know the truth?
The Night Hawks
by Elly Griffiths
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Ruth is back as head of archaeology at the University of North Norfolk when a group of local metal detectorists – the so-called Night Hawks – uncovers Bronze Age artifacts on the beach, alongside a recently deceased body, just washed ashore. Not long after, the same detectorists uncover a murder-suicide—a scientist and his wife found at their farmhouse, long thought to be haunted by the Black Shuck, a humongous black dog, a harbinger of death. The further DCI Nelson probes into both cases, the more intertwined they become, and the closer they circle to David Brown, the new lecturer Ruth has recently hired, who seems always to turn up wherever Ruth goes.
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(Ruth Galloway Mysteries)
ONCE UPON A MURDEROUS DELUSION
by A.G. Russo
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The year is 1980 in a small, sleepy New England town. Out of nowhere, a series of devastating murders threaten the safety and well-being of the community. A serial killer has begun a deadly game of catch-me-if-you-can with local police, who have dubbed the carnage, “The Mommy Murders.”
Frightened residents are certain the violent rape/murders are in some way connected to the psychiatric unit of Parkhirst General Hospital. Nella, a nurse angst-ridden by her service during the Vietnam War, is new to the area and the hospital. She joins the tight-knit group of nurses on the evening shift. Val, the leader of the group, with her own history of trauma, believes it stems from the prejudice their patients suffer from a community unsympathetic to mental illness. Or is evil closer to home than they think?
Fugitive Gideon Safford
by Bill Yenne
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The first adventure in a brand new Western series from acclaimed author Bill Yenne!
Gideon Safford is a fugitive, but his trail has long since grown cold. Heading into the Rockies from his native Kentucky, hoping to get across the Continental Divide before winter, he stops for refreshment and a night’s rest at the Dollar Saloon in Ithaca, Montana, a little town of farmers and small-time prospectors in the Elk Fork country. A chance intervention in a gunfight forces Gideon to kill a man in order to save another. Unfortunately, the dead man works for Clay Schugrue, a powerful rancher who controls the Elk Fork through intimidation and thievery by his hired guns. The shooting touches off an eight-day war between Schugrue’s men and riled-up townsfolk, with a mysterious rogue sniper attacking both sides. Unable to leave the people of Ithaca to their fate, Gideon reluctantly takes a stand for justice…and can only pray he’ll be able to see it through.
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(A Fugitive Gideon Safford Western Adventure)
Rampike
by European P. Douglas
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Trapped in an isolated mountain town… Something doesn’t want them to leave
When the local hermit, Maul Thorndean, disappears, Sheriff Joe Moorefield finds his cabin in a disconcerting state: all the surrounding trees are ghost-white, brittle, and leaning towards the cabin. There is blood on the floor, but no sign of Maul. Usually, if there is trouble in Mercy, Maul is the cause. Now, he might be the victim. The strange trees and their wraith-like limbs spread across the town. But when people begin disappearing, it’s clear that the trees are the least of the sheriff’s worries. In a desperate race to escape, only the luckiest will survive.
Little Secrets
by Jennifer Hillier
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They’re admired in their community and are a loving family—until their world falls apart the day their son Sebastian is taken.
A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak. She hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding Sebastian, she learns that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman.
Faithful Place
by Tana French
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn’t show. Frank took it for granted that she’d dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie’s suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
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(Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries)
A Witch in Time
by Constance Sayers
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930’s Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles — only she doesn’t know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he’s watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning.
At first, Helen doesn’t believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman’s. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
The Art of Betrayal
by Connie Berry
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Connie Berry’s third Kate Hamilton mystery, American antique dealer Kate Hamilton’s spring is cut short when a body turns up at the May Fair pageant.
Spring is a magical time in England–bluebells massing along the woodland paths, primrose and wild thyme dotting the meadows. Antiques dealer Kate Hamilton is spending the month of May in the Suffolk village of Long Barston, enjoying precious time with Detective Inspector Tom Mallory. While attending the May Fair, the annual pageant based on a well-known Anglo-Saxon folktale, a body turns up in the middle of the festivities…
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(A Kate Hamilton Mysteries)
Midnight Magic Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Enter a magical world of sassy heroines and mystical creatures…
Fall under the spell of these outstanding USA TODAY and Bestselling authors as they spin unforgettable tales of witches, demons, dragons, shifters, and more.
Explore enchanting worlds filled with magic, unexpected twists, strong leading ladies, and just the right amount of flirty romance.
This limited edition collection of BRAND NEW paranormal romance and urban fantasy books will take you on a thrilling joy ride you won’t soon forget.
Wheels of Injustice
by Susan Louise Gabriel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Six weeks into a blissful honeymoon, life turns into a nightmare when Susan’s 9-year-old daughter is taken away and her husband is falsely accused of child sexual abuse.
Dragged under the churning wheels of the child protection system, Susan is given a choice: cooperate in prosecuting her innocent husband or lose her daughter. When the couple doesn’t give in to pressure, Susan loses custody of her daughter, and her husband is charged with a felony that carries a 16-year prison sentence.
No one wants to hear the facts. No one wants to know the truth…
Cage
by Lilja Sigurdardottir
Rating: 4.1 #ad
“One of the darkest and most compelling series in modern crime fiction … Tackling topical issues, the book will tell you a great deal about why the world’s in the state it is, while never neglecting its duty to entertain” Sunday Express
The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her.
As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis, MarÍa find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed. Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in his own home.
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(Reykjavik Noir Trilogy)
The Protector: The Complete Box Set
by Laura Domino
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Perfection in Sharla’s life comes to an end when sudden deaths in the family change everything.
Sharla’s search for truth gets her very few answers. Wishing she knew who was behind the deception and why doesn’t help her. When Sharla’s world turns upside down, who can she rely on?
Should she trust the billionaire or the bodyguard? In book two, Dorian needs Max to assist, but will he be helpful enough? Are they safe or are they sitting ducks?
In book three, Max gets his chance to be a hero. When he’s lied to about the reason he was hired, how will he save the lives of those at the party – especially Penny?
The Boy From Nain
by Cy Young
Rating: 5.0 #ad
The year 35 B.C.: A 14-year old boy who hates God because he was born with a withered hand.
Despondent and having nothing to live for, the boy constantly gets drunk with his friends in the local tavern in the small village of Nain in Galilee. One night, after getting drunk with his buddies, after they go home, the boy takes several wine skeins with him and wanders off into the Hills of Galilee where he falls asleep. In the 4th watch of the night, he is awakened by voices, peers over the edge of a hill, and witnesses Jesus’ transfiguration.
Petrified, the boys runs down the hill, and when he stops, he realizes his withered hand has been healed. No one believes his story; the town stones him for breaking the Jewish law of committing blasphemy.
While the boy is lying in state on the way to the burial ground, Jesus appears, revives him, and he becomes a follower of the Master.
Whirlwind
by L.T. Ryan, Brian Shea
Rating: 4.5 #ad
For Hatch, normal is never easy. But in the months since surviving a deadly encounter atop an Alaskan glacier, she’s settled into her life in Coronado. With Cruise’s team still physically recovering and out of commission, Hatch receives her first mission. To find a missing girl who disappeared after a church picnic.
Hatch finds herself in Jericho Falls, a small town outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The small town carries a dark secret. As she seeks to expose it, Hatch finds that there are forces willing to do anything to keep that from happening. To save the missing girl, Hatch must face her past as it catches up to her and forces her to make a choice that will forever change her future.
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(Rachel Hatch Mysteries)
The Empress’ Spy Complete Series Boxed Set
by S.E. Weir, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What if you were given an offer you shouldn’t refuse?
Seraphina Waters craves the opportunity to protect Bethany Anne’s growing Etheric Empire. Thrown a lifeline when she needs it most, she’s given a chance to prove herself. If she can. Pulled into alien politics, and a life beyond her imagination, Phina might just have a chance to have the one thing she’s always wanted.
Now, she just needs to pull it off without getting killed.