Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran, it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment for The Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murder. A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, a fatal fall from a scaffolding—this is not at all what Qwilleran expects when he turns his reporter talents to art. But Qwilleran and his newly found partner, Koko the brilliant Siamese cat, are in their element—sniffing out clues and confounding criminals intent on mayhem and murder. This riveting beginning to the Cat Who series is the perfect cozy mystery for cat lovers to start sleuthing!
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(Cat Who… Mysteries)
Naked Prey
by John Sandford
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Two people are found hanging naked from a tree in the woods of northern Minnesota. What makes the situation particularly sensitive is the bodies are of a black man and a white woman. Lynching is the word everyone’s trying not to say, but as Lucas Davenport begins to discover, the murders are not at all what they appear to be. And there is worse to come – much, much worse.
“All but impossible to put down.” – The Washington Post
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(The Prey Mysteries)
Deputy Cooper
by Frank Wheeler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
He lost his family. He won’t lose the war.
When Deputy Cooper Franklin found his sister’s body among the rubble of an overturned carriage, he thought it was a terrible accident. Then he saw the bloody arrows. Now he wants justice, and if he can’t have that, he’ll take vengeance.
But it’s been years since Indians bothered the people of Tightwater, and Cooper isn’t convinced they’re the ones behind the series of attacks taking place now.
Elijah Bentley is a railroad baron who cares more about money than he does about people. With the help of the Predators, a notorious Texas gang known for their brutality and ruthlessness, he plans to take what’s his… and what isn’t.
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(A Western Adventure Fiction)
Danger in Numbers
by Heather Graham
Rating: 4.6 #ad
On the edge of the Everglades, an eerie crime scene sets off an investigation that sends two agents deep into a world of corrupted faith, greed and deadly secrets.
A ritualistic murder on the side of a remote road brings in the Florida state police. Special Agent Amy Larson has never seen worse, and there are indications that this killing could be just the beginning. The crime draws the attention of the FBI in the form of Special Agent Hunter Forrest, a man with insider knowledge of how violent cults operate, and a man who might never be able to escape his own past.
The Jackal Man
by Russell C. Connor
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A creature older than legend stalks the small Texas town of Asheville. A beast rarely seen but greatly feared, the Jackal Man has haunted the minds of this sleepy hamlet for ages from the uninhabited woods to the south.
Now, a land developer has purchased the area with the intent to build houses, and Frank Stanford has moved into the strange town with his family to oversee the project. He and his punk son Willie will be forced to deal with the truth behind the myth, along with an obsessed cop…a quirky zookeeper…and a sadistic hunter that may be more dangerous than the beast…
Raised in Fire
by K.F. Breene
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The exciting continuation of the Top 10 Amazon Store Bestseller by Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, K.F. Breene!
It is a common truth in my life that when it rains, it pours.
The killings that once plagued New Orleans are cropping up again in Seattle. The local office is stumped. I’m called out to lend a fresh set of eyes, and my unique magical touch. It’s only when I get there that I realize the Seattle office isn’t stumped at all.
They’re being silenced by the Mages’ Guild, a corrupt magical institution that doesn’t want word to get out of what is plaguing the city. Worse, news of my magic might’ve slipped down to the underworld, hitting the ears of some extremely powerful demons.
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(Demon Days, Vampire Nights World Mysteries)
Knife Edge
by Blake Banner
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Two crime scenes, two multiple murders. Two multiple murders that had too much in common to be mere coincidence.
Cherise Brown, her small daughter Shevron, her husband Earl. The only survivor, eight year-old Leroy who witnessed the whole thing. His story, that his father broke his sister’s neck, his mother stabbed his father in the back and his dad, before dying, in a kind of berserker rage, took the knife and killed his mother.
Four years later Leroy Brown is murdered along with his adoptive sister, Lea. He is stabbed in the back, while his sister’s throat is cut, in a tool shed in the back yard of his adoptive family.
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(A Dead Cold Mysteries)
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries Boxed Set
by Lois Winston
Rating: 4.3 #ad
The first two books in the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series:
Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun – When Anastasia Pollack’s husband permanently cashes in his chips at a roulette table in Vegas, her comfortable middle-class life craps out…
Death by Killer Mop Doll – Overdue bills and constant mother vs. mother-in-law battles at home are bad enough. But crafts editor Anastasia Pollack’s stress level is maxed out when she and her fellow American Woman editors get roped into unpaid gigs for a revamped morning TV show.
The Lost Girl from Belzec
by Ravit Raufman
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A little girl disappears from Belzec Camp without a trace. Will she survive the war on her own?
Poland, 1942. At the very height of World War II, little Ruthie and her mother are forced to leave their home and transported to the forbidding Belzec Extermination Camp, from whence no one has ever returned.
Ruthie’s mother knows that her daughter’s life is in grave danger. By a stroke of luck, she catches the eye of the camp commander and he makes her his housekeeper, delaying their death sentence for the time being.
Realizing that she must act fast, with no regard for her own life, Ruthie’s mother is able to smuggle her beloved daughter out of the camp to safety. But it is not long before the commander inevitably discovers her betrayal – and while he chooses not to kill her, he leaves her with a scar that will follow her for the rest of her life.
In the Still of the Night
by Ann Rule
Rating: 4.4 #ad
From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Ronda’s second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. “I’m actually looking forward to getting on with my life,” she told her mother earlier the night before. “I just need a few days with you guys.” Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mother, who had met her daughter’s second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.
Faefever
by Karen Marie Moning
Rating: 4.6 #ad
From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Ronda’s second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. “I’m actually looking forward to getting on with my life,” she told her mother earlier the night before. “I just need a few days with you guys.” Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mother, who had met her daughter’s second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.
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(Fever Mysteries)
Gated Prey
by Lee Goldberg
Rating: 4.4 #ad
A simple sting operation takes a violent and unexpected turn for Detective Eve Ronin in a gripping thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas. Their luxury McMansion is a honey trap, set to lure in the violent home invaders terrorizing the community. The trap works, leaving three intruders dead, a body count that nearly includes Eve and Duncan.
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(Eve Ronin Mysteries)
Immodest
by L.S. Einat
Rating: 4.5 #ad
In a world ruled by strict traditions and laws, one brave woman is willing to risk everything to earn her freedom.
Perele, a young Jewish woman, was raised in an extreme Ultra-orthodox society.
When she turns eighteen and her parents have a hard time finding a match for her, she is thrown into the arms of a cold and violent man, who makes her life unbearable.
A forbidden chance encounter with a man and the feelings that ensue, make her begin to question everything she has ever known – and even consider that maybe, she does not have to choose this life that has been thrust upon her. But she knows that once she makes a drastic decision, there will be no way back into the arms of the Jewish community.
Unforgettable Courage Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.1 #ad
When the stakes are high, and hearts are on the line… That’s the time you need UNFORGETTABLE COURAGE.
From a missing president’s daughter to escaping serial killers, hiding from human traffickers to protecting a political target, secret agents and hostages to uncovering hidden murders and outrunning organized crime, these heroic men and women must dodge bullets and defeat baddies all while falling in love – not exactly a walk in the park.
Curl up with your Kindle and these thrilling, action-packed, full-length romantic suspense novels by the bestselling and award-winning ladies of The Authors’ Billboard.