Friday’s Mystery eBooks
The Disappearance of Emily
by Elizabeth Pantley
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A magic mirror. An enchanted world. A mysterious missing mother. A suspicious package. An unexplained death. A community of strange, quirky people. A sassy cat and a hilarious, perpetually annoyed witch. Come visit Destiny Falls and escape to a great time.
…Hayden’s life was normal until she fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is not on any map and is home to a family she never knew she had. The town is enchanted and charming, and the amazing mansion she lives in changes to meet the needs of the people who live there, including her! Every day she discovers a new enchantment.
But something is amiss. Hayden gets an ominous warning from a strange woman, who promises to tell her the town secrets and give her a package – if she’ll meet her at the mysterious ferry that lacks a published destination.
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(Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic Mysteries)
Abandoned in Death
by J. D. Robb
Rating: 4.7 #ad
A Brand New release at REGULAR PRICE
Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostage’s life hangs in the balance – in Abandoned in Death by New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb.
The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
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(In Death Mysteries)
Saving Time
by Jodi Taylor
Rating: 4.8 #ad
From the bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY’S.
Life is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can’t wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn’t had his hair cut.
But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change history. And when a familiar face becomes a Very Important Lead, will conflicting family loyalties spell trouble for Team Weird?
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(The Time Police Mysteries)
The Carrow Haunt
by Darcy Coates
Rating: 4.6 #ad
“The dead are restless here…”
Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she’s asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow’s phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous.
At first, it’s everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. Doors open on their own. Seances go disastrously wrong. Red liquid seeps from behind the wallpaper. Their spirit medium wanders through the house during the night, seemingly in a trance.
Murder in Her Stocking
by G. A. McKevett
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In this spinoff cozy mystery series opener, a small-town Georgia grandmother reminisces about the murder of the local floozy in the 1980s.
As the Moonlight Magnolia Agency revisits old memories on Christmas Eve, Savannah Reid’s grandmother, Granny Reid, looks back to the 1980s—back when she went by Stella, everyone’s hair was bigger, and sweaters were colorful disasters. But murder never went out of style . . .
Christmas has arrived in sleepy McGill, Georgia, but holiday cheer can’t keep temperamental Stella Reid from swinging a rolling pin at anyone who crosses her bad side—and this season, there are plenty. First an anonymous grinch vandalizes a celebrated nativity display. Far worse, the scandalous Prissy Carr is found dead in an alley behind a tavern. With police puzzled over the murder, Stella decides to stir the local gossip pot for clues on the culprit’s identity…
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(A Granny Reid Mysteries)
Every Move You Make
by M. William Phelps
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A New York State investigator matches wits with a devious serial killer in the New York Times bestselling author’s true crime thriller.
Gary C. Evans was master of disguise and career criminal who had once befriended David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz. In 1989, he started weaving a web of deadly lies in Upstate New York, telling a female friend that the father of her child had deserted her. In fact, Evans had killed the man—just before striking up a ten-year romance with the woman.
Evans first met Investigator James Horton in 1985 when Evans snitched on a childhood friend and crime partner—failing to mention that he’d murdered him…
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. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Hygge
by Maya Thoresen
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Do you need a hug? Is your life messy, house cluttered, and your mind racing from thought to thought? Would you like to be able to retreat from a world that bombards you with facts, deadlines, and bad news into a sense of comfort and security?
We are living in a very uncomfortable world. The time has come to create our own cozy, warm, and secure lifestyle to combat the stress and uncertainty.
The Danish concept of hygge is not new. It’s not even a well-kept secret. Anyone who has cuddled up in a blanket by a toasty fireplace knows how important it can be to take a break from the outside world and find coziness and contentment.
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.