Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
Eggnog Murder
by Leslie Meier
Rating: 4.5
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With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine–until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog…
Eggnog Murder by Leslie Meier: When a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog–allegedly from the Real Beard Santa Club–proves to be a killer concoction for a Tinker’s Cove local, all Lucy Stone wants for Christmas is to find the murdering mixologist who’s stirring up trouble. Also includes these novellas: Death By Eggnog by Lee Hollis, Nogged Off by Barbara Ross.
In the Shadow of Power
by Viveca Sten, Marlaine Delargy
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What do the new arrivals on Sandhamn Island have to fear? Their own secrets—in this gripping novel of suspense by the bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment.
The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten Jonsson. It’s a nightmare for the locals. The venture capitalist has flouted local traditions, property lines, and the natural beauty of the coastline. He’s also too wealthy and arrogant to heed the anonymous warnings to leave. The threats escalate when his guest lodge is burned to the ground and an unidentifiable corpse is found in the charred ruins.
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(Sandhamn Murders Mysteries)
Fatal Beauty
by R.C. Hartson
Rating: 4.4 #ad
“A first-rate crime novel told in the classic noir tradition of Raymond Chandler, Jonathan Cain and Dennis Lehane.” – Best Thrillers
Ex-con Bart Hodgkins is abducting women at random in the windy city. A man without conscience; bold, high on drugs and alcohol, he is self-assured when he manipulates girls like Chelsea Rohrman into his web of evil and certain death.
His “silent partner” in subsequent serial killings is a former Cook County judge and university professor Lewis Lisecki, who is bald, unflappable and soft-spoken. Plagued at birth, given a dumpy fat boy’s body, one with flaccid arms, a short neck and bad eyesight, he’s forced to wear thick, round glasses that make him look like a goldfish staring out from a fish tank.
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(Sandhamn Murders Mysteries)
Radiant Angel
by Nelson DeMille
Rating: 4.1
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After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey’s new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be “a quiet end,” he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life. But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn’t: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia.
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(John Corey Mysteries)
Coffin Cemetery
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The dead speak and one man hears their harrowing cries… Dan Tate survived a heart-breaking tragedy and is plagued by nightmares of his terrifying ordeal. Withdrawing into an emotionless shell, he has driven away everyone who cared about him. Dan is lost, and utterly alone. Until he hears the voices…
In Coffin Cemetery, the anguished spirits cry out to him. Lost souls, torn from their places of rest, are seeking a way to move on…
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(Tormented Souls Mysteries)
Short Fuse
by Carolina Mac
Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Two lifers go over the wall at a Texas maximum security prison and lead the Blackmore Agency crew on a chase across the southwest. Can Blaine figure out what’s going on before it’s too late?
This time it might take more than a genius to unravel the maze of violence and deception.
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(The Blackmore Agency Mysteries)
How to Get Promoted
by Anthony S. Park
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Is asking for your promotion a one-off question, or a campaign? This easy-to-read guide answers all your questions about getting promoted:
What does a promotion mean for your career? Can you get a raise without a promotion?
Why is getting promoted important? Why is being great at your job essential?
How do you show you’re ready to move up? How to get noticed at work
Does your boss know you want a promotion? How long should it take to get promoted?
How to ask for the promotion and who to ask? What happens after you ask for a promotion?
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
Christmas Calamity at the Vicarage
by Emily Organ
Rating: 4.5 #ad
The event of Compton Poppleford’s festive season has arrived: the Vicarage Christmas Party. With sherry, mince pies and Christmas carols, the festivities are going well. But events take a turn when the choirmaster is found dead in the parlour. Which of the guests could possibly commit murder at Christmas time?
With everyone detained at the vicarage, elderly sleuths Churchill and Pemberley find themselves in all the wrong places at all the wrong times…
Hidden Thrones
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Jack Bennett can see evil. His unusual gift catapults him into a spiritual world of angels and demons that threatens not only his own life, but the soul of the entire human race. Jack becomes the FBI’s newest hire serving as a consultant for their new Paranormal Division. Together with Special Agent Frank Lederman they investigate the improbable and the unexplainable.
The government is convinced we are not alone in this world. With invisible forces all around, agencies are seeking how to harness that power for their own uses. The mystery swirling around the unseen and unknown has caused much speculation. Some suppose lost souls are wandering the earth, others believe deceased loved ones never truly moved on, and still, there are those who are convinced that aliens have infiltrated our world.
The ancient scriptures talk about a great evil that was conceived in the depths of eternity. There, a great war occurred in a place called Heaven. Lucifer, the ancient serpent, the evil dragon of folklore, was cast out and bound to the earth and confined to its surrounding atmosphere…
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(Hidden Thrones Series)
The Pot Thief Mysteries Volume One
by J. Michael Orenduff
Rating: 4.1 #ad
An Albuquerque pottery dealer looking for artifacts finds murder and intrigue in this “smartly funny” series (Anne Hillerman, author of Spider Woman’s Daughter).
The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras
The Pot Thief Who Studied Ptolemy
The Pot Thief Who Studied Einstein
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(The Pot Thief Mysteries)
ODETTE’S SONG
by A. G. Russo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
What’s going to happen to six-year-old Hunter? His parents are dead, and his grandmother is dying. He’s left with a family legacy of addiction, depression, and suicide. Hunter’s mother, Odette, wanted the husband she left for another man, to raise him, but Nico, alcoholic, depressed, and full of rage, wants no part of the child. He cannot accept that Odette, his wife and songwriting partner, left him.
During their senior year of high school, the beautiful, multiracial Odette, with an incredible voice and stage presence, joined Nico’s band. Five hard years of trying to “make it” finally paid off, but their inexperience cost them their independence, financial stability, and vultures wanting a piece of their songs, the only thing Nico, a talented guitarist, has left.
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Rating: 4.3
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder…
Willful Behavior
by Donna Leon
Rating: 4.1 #ad
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When Commissario Guido Brunetti first meets her, Claudia Leonardo is merely one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, she asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it—until Claudia is found dead.
Unable to find any living relatives, he visits the elderly Austrian woman who was once Claudia’s grandfather’s lover and with whom Claudia was close – and is stunned by the extraordinary art collection she keeps in her otherwise modest apartment.
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(Commissario Brunetti Mysteries)
From The Deep
by Michael Bray
Rating: 3.9 #ad
Something has awoken. Roused from its slumber following an Antarctic ice quake, an immense beast has risen from the depths. Dwarfing even the mighty blue whale, the gargantuan wonder of evolution takes charge of the oceans, setting a catastrophic chain of events in motion.
Henry Rainwater is a rookie crab fisherman trying to make his own way in life. After surviving an encounter with the beast which sees his father and the rest of the crew of their family boat killed, Rainwater becomes a recluse, deathly afraid of the creature which lurks in the ocean.