Friday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead Editor File
by G G Collins
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Preston Endicott, Jr. was hated by most of the staff at his book publishing house. At least until he turned up dead in his locked office in this debut of the Taylor Browning Cozy Mystery series. Taylor, the new mystery editor at the Santa Fe book publisher, sees plenty of possible perps right in the office suite. But the employees are hardly the only people to count as suspects.
Dominique Boucher, their bestselling author, just submitted her latest manuscript. It’s a locked-room mystery with a similar story line to the real life puzzle. His ex-wife wasn’t a fan either. And there is the matter of a large inheritance: a successful company and many financial assets. Who stands to gain the most?
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(Looking Glass Editor)
Code of Honor
by Marc Cameron
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Father Pat West, S.J. was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he’s been arrested and accused of blasphemy against Islam.
President Ryan is desperate to rescue his old friend, but he can’t move officially against the Indonesians. Instead he relies on the Campus team to find out who is framing the priest.
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(A Jack Ryan Mysteries)
The Carving Tree
by Terry Thomas Bowman
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Forty-six years ago Jake pledged his love to Sadie by carving their names into the Carving Tree. Now newly retired, Sadie is eager to take on life’s newest adventures with Jake by her side. But when the symbol of their enduring love begins to wither and Jake is diagnosed with a heart condition, Sadie’s dreams are put on hold.
Bitter towards God, Sadie is determined to nurse Jake and their beloved Carving Tree back to health on her own. Sadie’s luck takes a turn for the worse when she and Jake are threatened with a false lawsuit and Megan Thompson, an aspiring model, goes missing after leaving her young son in Sadie’s care…
The 8th Confession
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Join the Women’s Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before.
Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women’s Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco’s most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it’s the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged…
The Children
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.6 #ad
She picked up the wrong file, and now everything is falling apart.
From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart comes a new Billy Jo McCabe mystery set on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. When social worker Billy Jo McCabe accidentally picks up the wrong file, she discovers a shocking, twisted mystery plotted by a high-ranking social worker in the DCFS.
When Billy Jo McCabe accidentally picks up the wrong file, before she realizes her mistake, she discovers a secret no one was supposed to find.
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(Billy Jo McCabe Mysteries)
Feared
by Lisa Scottoline
Rating: 4.6 #ad
When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination – claiming that they were not hired because they were men—Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming that there is some truth to this case.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer is Nick Machiavelli, who has already lost to Mary once and is now back with a vengeance —determined not to not only win, but destroy the firm. It soon becomes clear that Machiavelli will do anything in his power to achieve his end…even after the case turns deadly.
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(A Rosato & DiNunzio Mysteries)
Valediction
by Robert B. Parker
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The most dangerous man to cross is one who isn’t afraid to die. But the most deadly is one who doesn’t want to live. And Spenser has just lost the woman who made life his #1 priority.
So when a religious sect kidnaps a pretty young dancer, no death threat can make Spenser cut and run. Now a hit man’s bullet is wearing Spenser’s name. But Boston’s big boys don’t know Spenser’s ready and willing to meet death more than halfway.
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(The Spenser Mysteries)
Highland Vengeance
by Melanie Karsak
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Everything Gruoch loves has turned to ash.
Scotland, 1032
With Gillacoemgain gone, Gruoch rides north with her newborn son and a broken heart. While she desperately clings to hope, Gruoch’s new alliance with Macbeth proves more challenging than she ever anticipated. Only her unexpected reunion with an important person from her past offers solace. All may yet be well, but the raven’s wary eyes cannot help but notice clouds gathering on the horizon.
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(The Celtic Blood Mysteries)
Until I Met You
by Candy York
Rating: 4.7 #ad
At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Grace Cooper had a crush, and it was on police detective Daniel Sullivan of all people! What on earth was she supposed to do about it?
Daniel had never seen Grace as anything more than the little sister of his best friend’s husband. But suddenly, he was entertaining all kinds of inappropriate thoughts about her, and she was way too young for him. Can Grace get over her crush, or does she even really want to?
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
My Daughter’s Keeper
by Adiva Geffen
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you?
Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful… and short-lived.
After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic sentiments growing all over the country, Rachel and her newborn daughter Ilona are thrown into the Warsaw ghetto…
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(World War II Brave Women Fiction Mysteries)
The 9th Judgment
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The Women’s Murder Club takes on two deranged killers, but Detective Lindsay Boxer begins to wonder if the mysterious case is also breaking apart her closest friendships.
During an intimate dinner party, a cat burglar breaks into the home of A-list actor Marcus Dowling. When his wife walks in on the thief, the situation quickly teeters out of control, leaving an empty safe and a lifeless body.
The same night, a woman and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in an abandoned garage. The killer hasn’t left a shred of evidence, except for a foreboding and cryptic message: WCF, the letters written in blood-red letters.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
An Itch for Justice
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Can a stalled murder investigation in Halcyon Springs pull Izzie Di Sante back into investigative journalism?
The mere thought of getting involved in the investigation shifts Izzie’s mind into overdrive. A former reporter turned restaurant owner, she’s determined to find out everything she can. Only the more she discovers about Drew Scanlon’s murder and his new wife’s hurried placement in a psychiatric facility, the more questions she has.
With the detective instructed to tread carefully given the social status of the family, the investigation of Drew’s murder stalls. His parents spin a story that casts his wife, Bethany, as the prime suspect.
Evidence of Things Seen
by Elizabeth Daly
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the sticky summer of 1943, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet who died just one year ago in the cottage Clara is now renting, merely adds to the local color. It’s all nothing more than a spooky game, until the woman’s sister is strangled while Clara dozes in a chair by her bed. The only clue: Clara’s panicked memory of a woman in a sunbonnet standing at the door. Happily, Henry Gamadge arrives in time to calm his wife and solve the mystery (though not without some stellar help from Clara!).
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(Henry Gamadge Mysteries)
Warrior Saints – Creator
by Carla Thorne
Rating: 4.7 #ad
In the supernatural battle of good vs. evil, whose side are you on?
Strange days have come to the halls of Stonehaven Academy. From brutal fights in the supernatural realm with a demon-like presence, to battling obstacles in the halls at school, Mary knows she’s different. She just doesn’t understand why. Then it gets even weirder.
As her supernatural battles increase, she is drawn into friendships with others who seem to be as confused about their bizarre abilities and encounters as she is. Now that Mary, Deacon, Scout, and Ivy have found each other, what is their purpose and why?
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(Warrior Saints Mysteries)
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…
The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
by Brad Meltzer
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Master storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories.
Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci’s stolen prophecy to the Kennedy assassination. This richly illustrated book serves up those fascinating, unexplained questions that nag at history buffs and conspiracy lovers: Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman “Spear of Destiny?” Where did all the Confederacy’s gold go? What is the government hiding in Area 51? And did Lee Harvey Oswald really act alone?
The Promises Between Us Trilogy
by Angela Christina Archer
Rating: 4.0 #ad
After France surrenders to the Nazis, all eyes turn to the Channel Islands off the coast. Knowing the Germans could invade their quiet home the resident children of Guernsey are evacuated. Among them are Amelia Ashton, and her older sister Evelyn.
The Promises Between Us
The promise to stay safe.
The promise to survive.
Pursuit of Justice Collection
by William Black
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Frontier Avengers – Book 1: Sloan Ferrell and his brother James stared at their parents lifeless bodies on the floor. The outlaw gang leader Cole Marsh spent the Civil War years riding with one of the most infamous soldiers of any war, Captain William Clarke Quantrill, the architect of the 1863 Lawrence massacre.
A Cowboy’s Ride for Justice – Book 2: Young brash cowboy Buck Larsen is fed up and can’t take it any longer…But can the courage of one man stand up against a ruthless mob?
Taking on Injustice – Book 3: The Civil War veteran stands alone in his fight for justice and safety for his townsfolk… But will his guns alone be enough?
Empath
by Silvia Hill
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Understand the empath in you and learn how to better value hypersensitivity in yourself and others.
Do you get dragged into the emotions of others so much that it distracts you from your own feelings? Does your spouse, parent, or child have a hypersensitive nature that affects their growth and happiness?
Did you know that empaths and highly sensitive people are different biologically? It’s not just a mental disposition.