Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Dogs and More Dogs, Another Murder
by Christa Nardi
Rating: 4.2 #ad
An abandoned house, an abundance of dogs. And a dead body or two.
Sheridan Hendley’s volunteer position at Pets and Paws takes a new turn when more than twenty malnourished dogs are found at a rundown house on the outskirts of town. When the body of an elderly woman is found amidst mountains of clutter in the house, a search of the property leads to startling revelations. And another body. While Herman Stoneham’s death is deemed natural causes, his wife’s is not. Where did all the dogs come from and who’s responsible for Justine’s untimely death? Are the two connected?
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(A Sheridan Hendley Mysteries)
Burning Ridge
by Margaret Mizushima
Rating: 4.7 #ad
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On a rugged Colorado mountain ridge, Mattie Cobb and her police dog partner Robo make a grisly discovery – and become the targets of a ruthless killer.
Colorado’s Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave on the ridge, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called in to spearhead the investigation. But this is no ordinary crime—and it soon becomes clear that Mattie has a close personal connection to the dead man.
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(A Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries)
Some Can See
by J.R. Erickson
Rating: 4.7 #ad
The dead tell stories. Are you listening? On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows.
In an abandoned cabin, beneath a tattered blanket, Sophia discovers Rosemary’s body. It was not Rosemary who led her there, but Rosemary’s ghost. Step into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane
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(Northern Michigan Asylum Mysteries)
Never Look Back
by Mary Burton
Rating: 4.4 #ad
After multiple women go missing, Agent Melina Shepard of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation makes the impulsive decision to go undercover as a prostitute. While working the street, she narrowly avoids becoming a serial killer’s latest victim; as much as it pains her to admit, she needs backup.
Enter lone wolf FBI agent Jerrod Ramsey. Stonewalled by a lack of leads, he and Melina investigate a scene where a little girl has been found abandoned in a crashed vehicle.
Korian: The Manian’s Spear
by Giorgio Garofalo
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A Stunning Blend of Mysticism, Myth, Nature and Adventure. We all have a dark side. His destroys worlds.
Set on Endura, a world as wondrous as it is mysterious, six-year-old Doric yields to the lure of a recurring dream and ventures beyond the town’s boundary into a dark forest. As darkness falls, he encounters a giant skine: a vicious winged predator of the sky and is brutally attacked and left for dead. But Doric’s body has a strange ability to heal. He survives the attack and is changed by the ordeal. He learns that he possesses the gift of telepathy and forms a powerful link with a mysterious sorcerer with the moniker, Manian. Through the Manian, Doric learns of his predestination and of the role he’s to play in the fate of Endura. Their powerful link, however, serves as a beacon, drawing a dark insatiable evil from the shadows.
Runner
by Thomas Perry
Rating: 5.0 #ad
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For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield practiced her unusual profession: “I’m a guide . . . I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is.” Then she promised her husband she would never work again, and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York. But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of guns-for-hire.
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(Jane Whitefield Mysteries)
The Lords of Discipline
by Pat Conroy
Rating: 4.6 #ad
As Will McLean begins his studies at the Carolina Military Institute, the American South is in turmoil over desegregation. An outsider to the harsh authoritarianism of the military, Will survives the school’s notorious freshman hazing, and avoids attention from its fabled and menacing secret society, the Ten.
But when he is asked to mentor the school’s first black student, Will is drawn into the intense racial politics—and the threat of violence—simmering beneath the surface.
A Cord of Three Strands
by Christy Distler
Rating: 4.9 #ad
Born to a French trader and a Lenape woman. Reared by Quakers. As the French & Indian War rages, one man strives for peace – between Pennsylvania and its Indian tribes, and between his own heart and mind.
As 1756 dawns, Isaac Lukens leaves the Pennsylvania wilderness after two years with the Lenape people. He’s failed to find the families of his birth parents, a French trader and a Lenape woman. Worse, the tribe he’s lived with, having rejected his peacemaking efforts, now ravages frontier settlements in retaliation. When he arrives in the Quaker community where he was reared, questions taunt him: Who is he—white man or Lenape? And where does he belong?