Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Dirty Martini
by Liliana Hart
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The next installment of the New York Times bestselling series by Liliana Hart…
J.J. Graves and Jack Lawson have to solve an unusual crime–a college student who was murdered in front of thousands of people. It seems like an open and shut case. Everyone saw the killer. But there’s more to this case than meets the eye, and Jack and J.J. wonder if they’ve finally met a case they can’t solve.
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(A J.J. Graves Mysteries)
Court of Bitter Thorn
by Kay L Moody
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Faerie wasn’t supposed to be real. Tricked by a fae prince, Elora is stuck in the Faerie realm far from her young sisters who depend on her for survival. Under the terms of her bargain, she can’t go home to the mortal world until Prince Brannick becomes the next High King.
Or until he’s taken out of the running… Sabotaging Brannick’s chance at the crown will be much faster than helping him win. The fae prince may be charming, powerful, and wickedly handsome, but that won’t stop Elora from selling his secrets to the highest bidder.
By day, she uses her master sword skills to train the prince. By night, she conspires with a rival king in a nearby court whose plans could destroy half of Faerie.
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(The Fae of Bitter Thorn Mysteries)
The Wrong Side
by Robert Bailey
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A battle-worn lawyer fights for a young man’s life in this criminally enthralling legal thriller.
Teen pop star Brittany Crutcher is found dead in small-town Tennessee. For attorney Bocephus Haynes, it’s just another night in Pulaski. Bo swore off criminal work after his last case, but the beloved singer’s murder demands answers.
The prime suspect is local high school football hero and the victim’s boyfriend, Odell Champagne. However, this fallen athlete is one of Bo’s son’s best friends. Bo knows this young man and does not believe him capable of the crime.
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(Legacy of Lies)
Sisters Behaving Badly
by Maddie Please
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven’t spoken since a very disappointing Carvery lunch. Kitty, sixty-two, thinks Jenny is turning grey. Jenny, sixty-six, thinks Kitty needs to grow up!
So when both sisters inherit a farmhouse in rural France, it gives them the perfect chance to heal the rift between them. Except the farmhouse is a wreck, the garden is terrorized by a flock of chickens, not to mention a donkey with a serious flatulence problem!
Escape to the French countryside for a laugh-out-loud feel-good adventure with the #1 bestselling author of The Old Ducks’ Club
One Hellbent Hawk
by William Black
Rating: 4.0 #ad
Rugged tracker and Civil War veteran Tristan Hawk is hellbent on accomplishing his mission to serve justice.
Railroad tycoons Ames Hathaway has enlisted Tristan Hawk to go after the Rip Bateman outlaws who have kidnapped the younger 15-year-old Baker Hathaway. Bateman and his lackeys had been working for Ames until they were fired for abusing Chinese railroad workers, and Bateman’s way of revenge is a kidnap-for-ransom. A lot is on the line for Tristan, including Baker’s life and the safety of anyone who gets too close to Bateman and the outlaws.
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(Post-Civil War Western Justice Mysteries)
Her Sister’s Secret
by S.E. Lynes
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Why would you pretend your life is a dream when you’re living a nightmare?
I thought my sister was happy. I thought what we all thought: that Annie and Dom led perfect lives in a lovely cottage in a quiet village by the sea, with flowers at the front gate and an apple tree in the garden. Everyone knew them: generous, loving Dom, creative, joyful Annie.
But I never saw Annie as she sat waiting for Dom well into the night. I didn’t see her smiling through her tears. I didn’t know what the perfect couple were hiding.
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Special Agent Booker
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Suspense lights up in every page of this fast-paced blockbuster of thrills!
When Sloan Booker’s father dies tragically, he has no other option but to give up his job as an FBI agent and take over his family’s vehicle restoration business in Oahu, Hawaii. Giving up his badge is difficult but having Homeland Security and his old boss request the use of his house in a stakeout, spying on his Muslim neighbors who they suspect are terrorists, is just too damn much for a man already frazzled. It makes no difference that they’ve offered him a partner to be in charge of the surveillance… until he meets the gorgeous divorcee.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
One for the Money
by D. B. Borton
Rating: 4.3 #ad
“Suspicion is second nature to any woman who’s raised three kids.”
#1 Best Seller in the Kindle Store’s list of Top 100 Free Books, January 2021.
Meet Cincinnati’s newest, oldest, funniest detective-in-training. After decades of marriage, motherhood, and grandmotherhood, Cat Caliban is looking for a new career. Detective work seems a logical choice. So, she sells her suburban house, buys an apartment building in a “transitional” neighborhood, and begins her training, only to discover a dead body in an upstairs apartment. What’s the connection between a murdered homeless woman and the Golden Age of Hollywood silent movies?
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(The Cat Caliban Mysteries)
The Traveler
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The Light Grows in Darkness…
The story of Jimmy’s supernatural adventure intensifies as he is drawn more deeply into God’s amazing plans for the world at the end of the age.
A firestorm of revival has been ignited by an unprecedented move of God’s Spirit that is sweeping the world. However, not everyone is happy about it, and powerful enemies are at work trying to stop what God is doing. Jimmy finds himself at the center of this epic conflict, suffering a tragic loss and receiving help from an unexpected source.
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(Within & Without Time Mysteries)
Twice a Daughter
by Julie Ryan McGue
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers—which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.
To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents aren’t happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parents—and that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background.
Targeting the Deputy
by Delores Fossen
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Texas deputy will do anything to save his son. Even work with his ex…
After narrowly escaping an attempt on his life, Deputy Leo Logan is stunned to learn that his ex Olivia Nash may have been set up to take the blame. She’s fighting him for custody of their son, but would someone go that far and put his little boy in the crosshairs? To catch a killer, he’ll have to keep them close—and risk falling for Olivia all over again.
From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.
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(Mercy Ridge Lawmen Mysteries)
The Lost Bones
by Kendra Elliot
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action.
The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago—the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.
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(Widow’s Island Novella Mysteries)
A Time of Dread
by John Gwynne
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A race of warrior angels, the Ben-Elim, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands, but their peace is brutally enforced.
In the south, hotheaded Riv is desperate to join the Ben-Elim’s peacekeeping force, until she unearths a deadly secret. In the west, the giantess Sig investigates demon sightings and discovers signs of an uprising and black magic. And in the snowbound north, Drem, a trapper, finds mutilated corpses in the forests. The work of a predator, or something far darker?
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(Of Blood & Bone Mysteries)