Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Risky Whiskey
by Lucy Lakestone
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Stirring up trouble in New Orleans …
Eager to shake up her drinks and her life, mixologist Pepper Revelle jumps at an invitation to join the elite Bohemia Bartenders. Leader Neil thinks she’ll be the perfect advance gal for his team at a colorful cocktail convention in her hometown of New Orleans, but the job turns out to be more bananas than a drunk monkey. Setting up the key tasting for their distiller client, she and Neil discover their whiskey has gone dangerously bad. But how? And was this shocking poisoning more than an accident?
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(Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries)
Cari Mora
by Thomas Harris
Rating: 3.2 #ad
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Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.
Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.
Alessa’s Melody
by Jayson Robert Ducharme
Rating: 4.3 #ad
There is blood on my hands. . .
Fifty seven years have passed since Louis Delacroix accidentally caused the death of his sister, a moment in his life that has haunted him ever since. Now lonesome and grief-stricken, Louis works as the butler of a mountain estate belonging to a dying steel tycoon. When his employer’s family comes for a holiday visit, Louis’ fragile world falls to pieces upon meeting a young girl, who possesses a special and familiar talent.
Wild Hare
by Laura Koerber
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Listed by Kirkus Review as one of the 100 best indy books of 2019.
“The world is coming to an end.” I pushed the oil rags and cigarette butts off the seat of my friend Arne’s old pickup truck and climbed in. He threw the truck into gear, gunned the engine, and smirked. “What’s the point of being a fairy if you can’t wave a magic wand and get shit done?”
Yeah, I’m a fairy. No, not that kind. I let a half mile of clear-cut rumble past the window while I thought about my crappy mood, contemplating the butchered landscape. Back when I was a kid, I used to enjoy the ride to town because the road wound through a mosaic of wetlands and forest and lakes. Mostly gone now: the forest, the marshes around the lakes, the moose…
Soul Reader Series
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Zeke Jackson, a mild-mannered reporter with a checkered past, wants to be an on-air reporter but he has a stuttering problem. His boss sends him to a televangelist to be healed. After being slain in the spirit his stuttering disappears and he acquires an unexpected supernatural ability to see the state of people’s souls and detect their lies. As others seek to use or exploit his gift, he questions why he has it and its source. The CIA, who has worked extensively with psychics, notices his gift and hires him as an asset to help prevent an assassination plot on the president and vice president. When they bring in one of the suspects, Zeke extracts critical terrorist intel which enables the Secret Service and FBI to prevent the assassination and take down the terrorists.
You Can’t Escape
by Nancy Bush
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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The Biggest Mistake. The branding iron glows in the moonlight as he presses the searing metal into his victim’s flesh. She must wear the devil’s sign, just like the others. He knows the curse that afflicts them – and he’ll make sure they carry it to their graves…
Is Believing. When investigative reporter Jay “Dance” Danziger is nearly killed in a bomb blast, journalist Jordanna Winters senses a career-making story. Together they can find out who’s responsible. But as their investigation uncovers a string of unsolved murders, each body branded in the same way, Jordanna realizes that Dance isn’t the only one in danger. You Could Ever Get Away…
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(Rafferty Family Mysteries)
Echoes From the Past
by Carolyn Digh Griffin
Rating: 5.0 #ad
In the shadow of a Revolutionary War battlefield site is the historic town of Kings Mountian, North Carolina. Near that city is located in a smaller urban town, Blackberry Ridge, which is steeped in history. Grace Bridges owns and operates a bookshop in the center of town. It’s located in Cleveland County, North Carolina. The actual Battle of Kings Mountain took place just across the border in South Carolina, almost on the state line. With the help of her assistant, Hank Warren, the bookshop has become a huge success. Because much of The Overmountain Bookshop focuses on the history of the area surrounding the battlefield site of Kings Mountain, it is of significant importance to all residents of Cleveland County, North Carolina. At thirty-five years of age, Grace discovers a secret that has been hidden from her all her life. When the validity of the mystery is unveiled, it changes everything she has believed about herself…
Special Agent Finnegan
by Mimi Barbour
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Love for his father makes a man weak – what’ll happen when he gives his heart to a woman?
When Special Agent Finnegan O’Reilly gets shot, and the news brings on his father’s heart attack, he decides to take leave from further undercover assignments. The O’Reilly has suffered enough and Finn can’t be the cause of more distress for this beloved old rascal. Then his boss forces one more case on him – to take place in their own pub. Acting as the target to expose serial, suicide killers rampaging through New York City, Finn must play the part of a wife-beater, a cheating husband and an all-time jerk. No problem, until he meets his make-believe wife.
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(Undercover FBI Mysteries)
TumbleStar
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Coop Malloy receives a telegram that his sister and brother-in-law have died and his ten-year-old niece is on her way to Texas to live with him.
Still reeling from the loss of his sister, he receives another shock when his childhood friend Randa Lockhart steps off the stage with his niece Kallie. He’s stunned to see that the little pigtailed nuisance that tagged after him, and his best friend, years ago has turned into a beautiful young woman.
Randa and Kallie have barely settled in when Coop finds buffalo hunter Marvin Doolin beating the local blacksmith within an inch of his life for laming his horse. Coop steps in and when the buffalo hunter tries to kill him, shoots him. Now Doolin’s four brothers are out to even the score.