Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Chocolate Covered Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.6 #ad
A “fast-paced” mystery with “a plot that involves two rival chocolatiers, a wealthy elderly couple from Connecticut, and plenty of local gossip” (Publishers Weekly).
No one in their right mind would vacation in Maine this time of year, but to boost the economy, the town of Tinker’s Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine’s Day. As a reporter for the Pennysaver, Lucy Stone is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer’s Chocolates, and its deliciously handsome owner, Trey Meacham. Not the best way to keep her widening waistline under control.
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(A Lucy Stone Mysteries)
SILENT WITNESS
by Rebecca Forster
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Josie Baylor-Bates has a full plate caring for a troubled teen, but it’s about to get fuller when her ex-cop lover, Archer, is accused of murdering his disabled stepson – a son Josie never knew he had. When Timothy Wren died at California’s oldest amusement park it appeared to be a tragic accident. But now Timothy’s biological father and the district attorney are out for blood. Is this a criminal action with merit, a vendetta or is there a big cash settlement in the offing?
For Josie the stakes are higher – it’s personal. Racing against time to prove someone is framing Archer, her faith in him is tested by his honesty regarding his feelings about his stepson.
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(The Witness Mysteries)
The Sound of Wings
by Suzanne Simonetti
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Seventy-year-old Goldie Sparrows faces declining finances, questionable health, and a late husband who torments her from the beyond. She seeks refuge in her butterfly garden, which is filled with voices and memories from long ago.
Jocelyn Anderson is a struggling writer who finds escape from her custody battle in the journal of her late mother-in-law. As she gets pulled through the pages of time, Jocelyn discovers her own husband has a hidden history she knows nothing about. Is this secret now Jocelyn’s to keep?
Diamonds in the Rough
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.3 #ad
What would you risk if you had nothing left to lose?
Tom Logan awakens from a drug-induced coma holding a black diamond, his only clue to finding his brother gone missing in the wilds of Arkansas. He meets Amber Armstrong, neo-pop poet turned police officer, and Mary Ann, a willowy teen, as his journey begins. Their magical adventure leads them into a cloud-cloaked valley fraught with beauty, timeless mystery, and imminent peril.
Will Tom find love, redemption, and his missing brother or die facing the two things he fears most?
The 5th Horseman
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dare to face the most terrifying heights of suspense. From hospital murders to explosive court battles, the Women’s Murder Club takes on their most harrowing challenge yet.
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women’s Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths-and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women’s Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.
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(Women’s Murder Club Mysteries)
Possession: Incubus Inside
by Mark Rivett
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Twins Matthew and Ian are half-human, half-demon. Their father is an Incubus, a sly, charming demon who seduces and impregnates unsuspecting human females. Now in their twenties, the twins have the innate ability to mesmerize and beguile humans. But they have always tried to control their inner darkness, to resist their demonic impulses. They are even working to rid their city of other, more malevolent demons. But now, the twins have stirred the wrath of powerful otherworld forces, and it will take all their courage and all their wit just to survive…
A Savage Kultur
by Monique Roy
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Ava, a Jewish art student at Oxford University in England, receives a heart-wrenching letter from her grandfather after he dies. From the letter, she discovers that her grandfather has left her his London art gallery, which he says will secure her future, as well as provide a place for her to grow her artistic talents and follow her passion for art. The letter also describes his one last wish—that she recover a treasured Vincent van Gogh painting, The Lovers: The Poet’s Garden IV, that belonged to her grandparents and was deemed degenerate and looted by the Nazis in 1937.
Arriving for the first time at the gallery, she discovers old photographs in a secret room that recount the harrowing past—a Nazi propaganda parade in 1937. She quickly becomes aware that the room and the gallery, with an empty frame for the missing van Gogh, hold such rich memories of her grandparents.
One Dark Night
by Anna Faversham
Rating: 4.2 #ad
It is 1821 and smuggling is rife on the English coast. Lucy Yorton, dragged away from her privileged early life, must slave, friendless, on a bleak, run-down farm. Those around her suspect she is a spy and treat her accordingly. Her problems increase when two men enter her life.
Lieutenant Karl Thorsen, sworn to avenge the murder of his father, is a King’s man. He is determined to stop the violent smugglers, hang them, and hang and gibbet one in particular. Daniel Tynton has smuggling in his blood. Undaunted by Thorsen’s threats, he is respected and feared.
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(The Dark Moon Trilogy)
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?