A Stranger's Game by Colleen Coble

 A wealthy hotel heiress.

Even though Torie Bergstrom hasn’t been back to Georgia since she was ten, she’s happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island.

A suspicious death.

But when Torie learns that her best friend has drowned, she knows it is more than a tragic accident: Lisbeth was terrified of water and wouldn’t have gone swimming by choice.

A fight for the truth.

Torie goes to the hotel under an alias, desperate to find answers. When she meets Joe Abbott and his daughter rescuing baby turtles, she finds a tentative ally.

The more Torie and Joe dig, the more elusive the truth seems. One thing is clear: someone will risk anything—even more murder—to keep their secrets buried.

Torie just can't believe that her friend drowned.  She was terrified of water so how could she drown.  She arranges to go to the hotel to get some answers.  There she meets Joe and his daughter.  Torie doesn't want anyone to know she is there to investigate her friends death.  Her dad, the owner of the hotel, arrange for her to get and job in the IT department.  Of course she solves the mystery, along with Joe's help.  I enjoyed this book and recommend to all who like a good mystery.

I was given this book by Thomas Nelson Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

Proposing Mischief by Regin Jennings

Maisie Kentworth is being forced to stay on her parents' ranch. After a short-lived relationship with the wrong man, she's worried about inflaming things further between her former beau and her protective family. Left to rue her mistakes, she keeps busy exploring the idle mine at the edge of their property, where she discovers a great treasure.

Boone Bragg is also stuck. With his parents on vacation, the management of Bragg Mining falls on him, and one of his advisors wants him as a son-in-law. One wrong move, and Boone will end up either offending an associate or marrying a woman he can't endure.

While closing up a spent mine, Boone gets two surprises. One is a spitfire farm girl who's trespassing with a pickax, and the other is the amazing crystal cavern that she's discovered. Suddenly Boone sees a way to overhaul the family business. With part of the cavern on Kentworth land, Boone makes Maisie a proposal that he hopes will solve all of their problems. Instead it throws Joplin into chaos, and it will take all of Maisie's gumption to set things right.

I found this to be a good lighthearted read.  Maisie is a down to earth girl who manages to get herself into mischief wherever she goes.  She goes exploring and discovers a crystal cavern.  Boone finds her there and the fun begins.  Boone wants to save his business and the only way he sees to do that is to marry Maisie.  Maisie wants to escape her family farm so they make a deal.  Along the way they discover that someone is sabotaging the mine so it won't be able to open.  

I recommend this to all who enjoy a good light hearted mystery.  

I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

Lights Out by Natalie Walters

CIA analyst Brynn Taylor developed a new program to combat terrorism, and she invited members of foreign intelligence agencies to America to foster cooperation between countries. Now one of them, Egyptian spy Remon Riad, is missing.

Jack Hudson has been working for the Strategic Neutralization and Protection Agency (SNAP) for almost nine years and takes the lead in hunting down the missing spy. But he isn't at all pleased to find out Brynn is involved. It's hard to trust a woman who's already betrayed you.

Every lead they follow draws them dangerously deeper into an international plot. Kidnapping, murder, explosions, poisoning--the terrorists will do anything to accomplish their goal of causing a digital blackout that will blind a strategic US military communications center and throw the world into chaos.

Jack and Brynn met years ago when they were both in CIA training.  It was because of her that he didn't make into the CIA.  He has bitter feelings about her that he has overcome in order to work with her to stop a terrorist attack against the US.  

This book was full of suspense and kept me reading.  I recommend this book to all who like a good mystery.  I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

I was given this book by Revell Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

As Dawn Breaks by Kate Breslin

Amid the Great War in 1918 England, munitions worker Rosalind Graham is desperate to escape the arranged marriage being forced on her by her ruthless guardian and instead follow her own course. When the Chilwell factory explodes, killing hundreds of unidentified workers, Rose realizes the world believes she perished in the disaster. Seizing the chance to escape, she risks all and assumes a new identity, taking a supervisory position in Gretna, Scotland, as Miss Tilly Lockhart.

RAF Captain Alex Baird is returning home to Gretna on a secret mission to uncover the saboteur suspected in the Chilwell explosion, as Gretna's factory is likely next. Fearing for his family's safety, he's also haunted by guilt after failing to protect his brother. Alex is surprised to discover a young woman, Miss Lockhart, renting his boyhood room, but the two eventually bond over their mutual affection for his family--until Alex receives orders to surveil her.

Rose squirms beneath Alex's scrutiny while she struggles to gain her workers' respect. But when her deception turns to danger, she and Alex must find a way to put their painful pasts behind them and together try to safeguard the future.

My review:  This is a good book.  I thought it repeated itself too many times on Rose's situation so I found my self skipping some of that.  I found the plot to be good and the details of the canary girls was interesting.  I was surprised at who the spy was at the end of the book.  Overall I would recommend this book for a light mystery.

I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.  

Deadly Target by Elizabeth Goddard

Criminal psychologist Erin Larson's dreams of a successful career come to a screeching halt when she nearly loses her own life in a boating accident on Puget Sound and then learns that her mother tried to commit suicide. She leaves her job as a criminal psychologist to care for her mother in Montana. At least she is able to produce her podcast, which focuses on solving missing persons cold cases.

Nathan Campbell's father was investigating such a case when he was shot, and now Nathan needs to enlist Erin's help to solve the case. She's good at what she does. The only problem? She's his ex.

As the two dig deeper, it becomes clear that they, too, are being targeted--and that the answers to their questions are buried deep within the past Erin struggles to explain and longs to forget. 

My review: This book had so many twists and turns it kept me guessing the entire time I was reading it.  Why is one case got so many people concerned and why are people dying because of it?  It all goes back to Erin's past that she doesn't seem to remember.  I highly recommend this book to all those who like a good mystery.

I was given this book by Revell Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.  

Crosshairs by Patricia Bradley

Investigative Services Branch (ISB) ranger Ainsley Beaumont arrives in her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a three-month-pregnant teenager. While she wishes the visit was under better circumstances, she never imagined that she would become the killer's next target--nor that she'd have to work alongside an old flame.

After he almost killed a child, former FBI sniper Lincoln Steele couldn't bring himself to fire a gun, which had deadly and unforeseen consequences for his best friend. Crushed beneath a load of guilt, Linc is working at Melrose Estate as an interpretive ranger. But as danger closes in on Ainsley during her murder investigation, Linc will have to find the courage to protect her. The only question is, will it be too little, too late?

My review:  Ainsley never thought she'd see her former boyfriend, Lincoln, again.  He blew is when he sided with her father and told her she'd never make it as a singer.  She has never told anyone but her grandmother and aunt why she gave up singing.  Now she is a ranger task with finding killers. Since Lincoln was a former FBI agent he is task with helping Ainsley solve the murder of a teenage girl.  His only problem is that he can't touch a gun.  Ainsley and Lincoln have baggage they have to deal with before they can start to trust each other again.  

I recommend this book to all those who like a good mystery.  There were several surprises along the way that I didn't expect.

I was given this book by Revell Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any say.

Dead Fall by Nancy Mehl

After putting to rest the most personal case of her career, Alex Donovan is ready to move on and focus on her future at the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit. When the BAU cofounder is discovered dead in his hotel room, the FBI is called in to work on the strangest case they've ever faced. How do you find a killer who murders his victims from a distance?

When it becomes clear that the killer is targeting agents in Alex's unit, they are ordered into lockdown, sheltered in the dorms at Quantico. Alex bunks with controversial agent Kaely Quinn, and as they work together, Alex discovers in Kaely the role model she's never had--despite being warned away.

As Alex questions the type of agent she wants to become, things get personal when the brilliant killer strikes close to home. Now Alex will do anything to find the killer--even at the risk of her own life.

My review:  What an interesting book. How do you find a killer when it appears to be a suicide?  But you know the person would never commit suicide.  Alex is task with doing just that.  Every where she and her team goes, it seems the killer knows what they are doing before they do.  

This is the second book in the series The Quantico Files.  It's not necessary to read the first book in the series before reading this one.  I recommend it as you learn more about Alex's background.

I recommend this book to all who like a good mystery.  

I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.