Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Murder Under the Mistletoe
by Fiona Leitch
Rating: 4.2 #ad
THE PERFECT RECIPE. It’s three days before Christmas, and detective-turned-chef Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is drafted in to cater a charity event run by a notorious millionaire at a 13th-century abbey in Cornwall.
A PINCH OF PARANOIA. Things get more complicated when a snowstorm descends, stranding them all, and the next morning they find one of the guests has been gruesomely murdered in their bed…
A DASH OF DECEPTION
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(A Nosey Parker Cozy Mysteries)
Angels & Imperfection
by Dan Arnold
Rating: 4.4 #ad
JOHN WESLEY TUCKER IS NEITHER AN ORDINARY DETECTIVE NOR AN ORDINARY MAN.
Private Investigator John Wesley Tucker is hired to do a routine background check for a wealthy oil man, an aspiring politician. His investigation is complicated by his involvement in other cases and events which may be tied to a person associated with his client.
His partner, Christine, finds herself struggling to come to grips with her own ideals and beliefs. She and John are being followed by members of an unknown agency. When they learn there is a connection between the agency and Christine’s former boss, all the disparate threads are woven together into a tapestry of death.
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(Angels & Imperfection Mysteries)
Wicked Hot Magic
by Riley London
Rating: 5.0 #ad
There’s a new strike team in Salem.
Three hot guys… and me. I’m Max: part-time demon hunter, brand new witch, and all-around tough girl.
I’m on a mission to save Father Gabriel, the only person in my life that ever cared. When an exorcism goes bad, demons drag him down to the fiery pits of Hades. I’m going to get him back, but I can’t do it alone.
The Protectors of Salem add me to their elite hit squad with three hardcore warriors who are supposed to help me come into my powers and pull off this rescue mission. It’s going to take a miracle for us to all get along.
Wreck
by Shawn Luther
Rating: 4.0 #ad
A suspenseful thriller as well as an intimate character study, Wreck investigates a day in the life of five ordinary individuals who don’t always realize their presence in other’s lives. Short but effective, this book will have you clinging to each page.
Five seemingly unrelated stories become entwined during the course of a single night in this climactic novella. It all starts when Darya and her boyfriend Brian witness a man being held at gunpoint on the side of the highway. Despite Brian’s protests, Darya follows the perpetrator, determined to stop him somehow. The chase ensues until events begin to spiral out of control, mistakes are made, and people are forced to choose who lives and who dies.
Dwarf Bounty Hunter Boxed Set
by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rating: 5.0 #ad
“One of the best damn bounty hunters. Period.” James Brownstone
Johnny Walker was a good bounty hunter in his day. James Brownstone good.
But everybody has a line, including Johnny, and he retreated from the world to lick his wounds. But now the bad guys are back and he’s not going to let another young woman be murdered.
When Johnny’s teenage daughter was murdered, everybody’s favorite Dwarf retreated to his cabin in the swamp with his two hound dogs by his side, and retired with his guns, his whiskey and his memories. Who was the killer? Even Johnny couldn’t figure it out. At least not yet. But magical monsters weren’t done with him… yet.
Tiny Little Thing
by Beatriz Williams
Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the summer of 1966, Christina “Tiny” Hardcastle stands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Unlike her spirited sisters, Tiny was the consummate well-behaved debutant, poised and picture-perfect, raised to serve as a consort to a great man. Now, as her handsome husband, Frank, runs for a Massachusetts seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, that long-sought destiny lies nearly within reach.
But behind her glamorous facade, Tiny’s flawless life is cracking. She and Frank both have secrets in their pasts that could shatter their political ambitions and the intricate truce of their marriage.
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(The Schuler Sisters Mysteries)
A Second Chance
by Walt Mussell
Rating: 4.5 #ad
***Quantum Leap meets Shogun***
Her only future lay in her death…in the past.
Kira Sakamichi is a career-driven woman, trying to achieve success before her mother’s constant interference sentences her to a relationship. But when a grudging drive to meet her mother’s latest “selection” ends in a lake accident, Kira wakes up lost in the past, part of the household of a 16th century samurai, and mother of a six-year-old son. When actions in battle lead to the samurai’s condemnation, Kira learns that the house will share the samurai’s fate. Only by understanding duty and family in both time periods can they survive.
(For Nook readers, use discount code: BNPONLY99 at checkout)
Men in Green Faces
by Gene Wentz, B. Abell Jurus
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Because it’s a novel, the truth can be told. Because it’s the truth, you’ll never forget it…
Gene Michaels carries an M-60, eight hundred rounds, and a Bible. The ultimate SEAL, he also carries a murderous grudge against a bloodthirsty colonel who was once one of their own. To bring him in, Michaels and his men will go behind the lines, where they’ll take on 5,000 NVA in the fight of their lives.
In this stunning novel, former SEAL Gene Wentz brings to life what it was like to be a SEAL in Vietnam, running an endless tour of top-secret, death-defying operations deep in enemy territory. From the camaraderie to the harrowing recons, from brutal interrogations to incredible, toe-to-toe firefights, here are America’s most feared warriors as you’ve never seen them before.
BARRIE HILL REUNION
by Lisette Brodey
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Eight people. One weekend. Eight lives forever changed.
In the mid-1960s, at an elite college in the quaint town of Barrie Hill, Connecticut, a group of literary-minded students met regularly off-campus at the Vanessa Grand Hotel. Often late into the night, they would discuss the day’s news, analyze literature, philosophize, trade barbs, and socialize.
Twenty years after graduation, in 1986, the group’s founder, Clare Dreyser, organizes a weekend reunion. Seven former Barrie Hillers and one guest get together, eager to re-create an extraordinary time in their lives and reunite with old friends.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Here Today, Scone Tomorrow
by R. A. Hutchins
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When the self-titled Lord of the Manor, Harold Baker, meets an untimely end, the residents of Baker’s Rise believe that he has simply died from choking. It is fair to say that they are certainly not sad to see him go!
Former city dweller Flora Miller, new to the quaint English village and in charge of the recently restored Tearoom on the Rise, is the unlucky recipient of the late man’s parrot. Her new feathered companion has no filter and a vibrant personality that cannot be ignored! Witness to Harold’s murder, the bird won’t let the matter lie, and it’s not long before Flora becomes suspicious.
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(Baker’s Rise Mysteries)
Rejectors
by Kyle Watson
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What would you do as last of the Rejectors? They are coming. Run.
Rejecting the system has a price, and the last rejectors are on the run and must outpace the evil forces that are hunting them. Vowing to never bend to the will of evil leader, will the rejectors be able to escape capture and avoid the delusion that overtakes those who are forced to accept the system?
Wrestling with the reality that the battle is taking place in both the seen and unseen realms, the rejectors will stop at nothing to fight for their souls and lives.
Genesis
by Robin Cook
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren’t adding up. Kera’s family and friends swear she never touched drugs.
Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was–or whether he holds the key to Kera’s final moments alive.
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(Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Mysteries)
Songs of Earth and Power
by Greg Bear
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Greg Bear explores the power of music to open a portal between worlds in this pair of brilliantly imagined fantasy novels.
The Infinity Concerto: Following the instructions of a virtuoso composer—whose controversial Concerto Opus 45 is actually a song of power—young poet Michael Perrin passes through a gateway between Earth and the Realm of the Sidhedark, where faeries reign by rule of magic, and Michael’s epic journey begins . . .
Deserves To Die
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In Grizzly Falls, Montana, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are struggling with a new acting commander while Sheriff Dan Grayson is in a coma after being shot. It’s the worst possible time for a homicide. A woman’s body has been found, frozen and missing a finger. Alvarez hopes this was an isolated case of a murderer with a personal grudge. But then a second body turns up. . .
Meanwhile, Anne-Marie Calderone has just arrived in town hoping Sheriff Grayson could help her escape a dangerous stalker. But now Grizzly Falls is starting to feel like a trap…
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(An Alvarez & Pescoli Mysteries)
The Sanatorium
by Sarah Pearse
Rating: 3.9 #ad
You won’t want to leave. . . until you can’t. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.
An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin’s taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.
Need to Know
by Fern Michaels
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Justice is music to the Sisterhood’s ears as they delve into the dark side of celebrity—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crash and Burn.
Through all their missions and adventures, the tightknit group of friends who make up the Sisterhood have learned one vital lesson: everybody has a weak spot. In the case of Yoko Wong’s dear friend Garland Lee, the multimillion-selling performer known as America’s beloved songbird, that weak spot was trusting her lawyer, Arthur Forrester. For years, he’s taken advantage of her faith in him to amass a secret fortune. And now, in the deepest betrayal yet, he’s dragged her into a lawsuit that could cost her everything.
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(Sisterhood)
The Pelican Trees
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Chock full of mystery, suspense and intrigue, The Pelican Trees allows each reader to do just that, each step carefully orchestrated by a loving grandfather (already in Heaven) trying to rescue his precious granddaughter and the rest of his family from eternal condemnation.
Shocking…
Left out of her grandfather’s will for no apparent reason, Shelby McKinney mysteriously receives a post-dated letter a few days later, stating that he hadn’t forgotten about her after all. But if she wants her inheritance, she must find it buried six-feet beneath the sand somewhere in the state of Florida. Exciting…