Category: Mystery/Thriller

The Mogul’s Daughter by Rick Fuller
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 374 KB
Overview: On a frigid, gloomy night, Ericka Barlow and her boyfriend, Spencer Carey, race across the dark Nevada high desert, a massive winter snowstorm thundering along in their wake, gobbling up the stars above the desolate landscape. Wanting nothing more than to crawl into a bed, they have no idea that ahead of them two criminals have taken hostages in a tiny rundown motel at the edge of an isolated mountain town on highway 50, the Loneliest Road in America. As Ericka and Spencer pull into the motel and walk into the middle of a dangerous plot, they have no idea that their lives are about to change forever. As the snow begins to fall heavily on the bunkered town of Austin, Nevada, Ericka and the other hostages draw up a daring plan of escape, one that will require incredible fortitude and bravery from a girl who has led a very sheltered life. Unbeknownst to Ericka as she runs headlong through the snow-covered mountains in a desperate bid to seek help, treachery and deception are already eroding her path to freedom.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller

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Duplicate Bridge Club Mysteries by Doug & Sheryl Riley (#1-2)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 635 KB
Overview: Doug and Sheryl have been partners in bridge and in life for 27 years with three wonderful children and two spoiled dogs. Originally Midwesterners, they moved south when they got married, and learned bridge while Doug was an impoverished graduate student. Doug and Sheryl began playing duplicate bridge at the Birmingham Duplicate Bridge Club in 2008 after their third child was born in an effort to get out of the house and save their sanity. This plan allegedly worked, at least until the kids started playing bridge as well. Now the whole family enjoys traveling to tournaments around the country as their work and school schedules allow. Doug and Sheryl have been finalists for the NABC President’s Cup five of the past seven years. Both are still working towards their Life Master goal. When not playing bridge or writing mysteries, Doug is a mathematics professor and Sheryl is a paralegal.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller

1. Killer Lead
In Alpine, the Duplicate Bridge Club is the place to be. It may be a small town, but they have games every day, and all the big names like to compete. Recent young widow, Gracie Thies, is not a big name in Alpine. In fact, she hasn’t lived there in 15 years and had never planned to come back. Needing a place to settle and get her life back together after her husband’s unexpected death, Gracie has come home to spend time with her grandmother. Mamaw loves to go to the Duplicate Bridge Club, and Gracie has been playing as her partner. However, when Gracie discovers a body and is suspected of murder, the bridge fun stops and the old rumors start again. To clear her name, Gracie will have to confront her past, forgive old wrongs, make amends, and of course, play bridge.

2. Dead Dummy
Gracie Thies returns to action in the sequel to Killer Lead as she explores the possibility of opening a specialty coffee shop in downtown Alpine, Alabama. Staying in Alpine will allow her to spend time with her grandmother, and continue her rekindled relationship with her high school sweetheart. Unfortunately, Gracie’s plans have to go on hold when the body of a fellow bridge player is found in her future shop shortly after she had an argument with him at the Alpine Duplicate Bridge Club. The plans for “Gracie’s Grounds” may go up in steam before renovations even begin unless Gracie can clear her name, get construction progressing, convince others in the town to support her business, play bridge, and in the process, hopefully find a murderer.

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Flying Too Close to the Sun by George Jehn
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 570 KB
Overview: Shuttle Air Boeing 727 Captain Christina Shepard’s life is derailed when she is diagnosed with an illness that will end her lifelong airline pilot career. A fiscal disaster also awaits her due to alimony, child support payments and a maxed out credit card due to a hurtful relationship. She must somehow come up with money to preclude economic ruin. Enter newly-hired Second Officer, Erik Preis, who is also mired in economic debt, with his job at stake. Shepard concocts a scheme requiring the assistance of Preis and Juni Rosario, a wrongfully terminated former banker. Their plan seemingly succeeds—until an unexpected event takes place that pits the conspirators against one another.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller

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Abbess of Meaux Mysteries by Cassandra Clark (#5,11)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5 MB
Overview: Cassandra Clark has written award-winning scripts for theatre, radio and television and now writes the medieval mystery series starring nun sleuth Hildegard of Meaux set in the time of Richard II.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller

5. The Dragon of Handale
Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Still unsure whether she will rejoin the Order, the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. Used as a house of correction for sinning nuns, it lies in the north of the county in the middle of a vast wood and is run by the ambiguous Abbess Basilda and her close group of hard-faced acolytes.

While walking about the grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. His body bears deep gashes from neck to groin. His wounds appear to be the ravages of claws, but larger than any animal Hildegard knows of. Is it possible that the young man was killed by a dragon, as Hildegard’s been told? Of course, Hildegard does not believe in dragons, and despite being warned against it, she goes for a walk in the woods. There she discovers a secret tower, locked and barred, with armed men on guard.

What is so valuable that it needs such protection? Has it anything to do with the mystery of the young man’s death? And why have assassins been pursuing the King’s courier across the savage moor land only to murder him at a lonely wayside tavern? Hildegard risks all dangers to seek out the truth.

11. Murder at Beaulieu Abbey
Death and danger await intrepid nun Hildegard of Meaux when she undertakes a secret mission for the good of her Order.

February, 1390. The Church seethes with rebellion. Newly elected Pope Boniface faces a challenger: the anti-pope Clement, who sows discord from his power base in France.

The quarrel threatens the very survival of the Cistercian Order. So when suspicions grow that distant Beaulieu Abbey may turn traitor, Hildegard’s prioress summons her with a mission she can’t refuse: travel to the isolated royal abbey and spy out their true allegiance.

The public reason for Hildegard’s trip is more prosaic. A young Cornish heiress, promised in marriage to the son of local aristocrat Sir William, needs escorting to her new home. It’s not often Hildegard joins a betrothal party, and she’s looking forward to meeting the girl. But little does Hildegard know, death and danger wait at Beaulieu – and even the protection of her travelling companions, the monks militant Brother Gregory and Brother Egbert, may not be enough to keep her safe from harm . . .

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Hold Back the Night by Sean Lynch
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 606 KB
Overview: Three unsuspecting women. Two escaped convicts. One shocking night of escalating terror.

It begins with a spark. A simple act of carelessness that ignites the autumn grass of the Sierra Nevadas. In minutes, the flames spread. A raging wildfire sweeps down the mountain, engulfing a van from the local prison—giving two chained convicts a chance to escape . . .

Two desperate men. Psychologically disturbed. Extremely dangerous.

In Farnham County live three very different women. Marjorie Guthrie, a wealthy suburban housewife fleeing an abusive marriage; Mary Hernandez, her troubled, rebellious sister; and Leanne Strayer, a young SWAT deputy with a dark past. All three share one thing in common: they are in the wrong place at the wrong time . . .

Today, their worst fears come true. Tonight, the nightmares come home.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller

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