Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Miss Riddell and the Heiress
by P.C. James
Rating: 5.0 #ad
A lost fortune. A desperate hunt for answers. Can a persistent investigator unearth the truth and save a life?
Sydney, Australia, 1977. Miss Riddell just survived a mind-numbing audit. So when she’s approached by an Australian woman seeking to prove she’s entitled to inherit an affluent English estate, the amateur sleuth is tickled by the chance to crack an easy case. But when she heads to England and discovers the aristocratic claim has no substance, she didn’t expect her dissatisfied client to follow… or the danger she would attract.
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(Miss Riddell Cozy Mysteries)
The Girl Next Door
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 5.0 #ad
When special forces operator Luke O’Connell meets a woman he never expected to see again, he uncovers the dangerous secret she is hiding and realizes the lengths someone will go to stop him from uncovering the truth.
Luke never in a million years expected to see Misty Bates again after a weekend of no strings and no names. But when his family introduces him to the nice girl next door, who turns out to be his mysterious fling, he soon figures out that the small-town girl is running from something, and uncovering it could destroy his chance at love.
Luke O’Connell has been unlucky in love because of who he is. He has a job he can’t talk about, with trouble always following him, and a peaceful night’s sleep is something he can only dream of having.
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(The O’Connells Mysteries)
The Dry Grass of August
by Anna Jean Mayhew
Rating: 4.3 #ad
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On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family’s black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there—cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father’s rages and her mother’s benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally.
The Nazi Double Agent
by Alan Hardy
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It is 1942. Three years into World War Two. Fiona, rich and privileged, is still enjoying a glamorous lifestyle. She is married to gorgeous, young Squadron Leader Matthew Manfred, more than ten years her junior. A certain troubling matter of last year has been cleared up…you know, when Matthew (who, it turned out, was a British MI5 agent) exposed her as a German spy…and ‘turned’ her into a British double agent. And married her. And presented her, some months later, with a beautiful daughter, Eugenia.
All that unpleasant spy business is forgotten now, isn’t it? Everything is fine, isn’t it? Matthew trusts her implicitly. Doesn’t he? She is now a loyal citizen, devoted to England’s cause. Isn’t she?
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(The Nazi Spy)
If I’m Found
by Terri Blackstock
Rating: 4.1 #ad
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Casey Cox is still on the run, fleeing prosecution for a murder she didn’t commit. Dylan Roberts – her most relentless pursuer—is still on her trail, but his secret emails insist he knows the truth and wants to help her. He’s let her escape before when he had her in his grasp, but trust doesn’t come easily.
As Casey works to collect evidence about the real murderers, she stumbles on another unbearable injustice: an abused child and a suicidal man who’s also been falsely accused.
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(If I Run Series Mysteries)
Everything, Somewhere
by David Kummer
Rating: 4.4 #ad
The power of memories. Little Rush is a sleepy town on the Ohio River. Bruce Michaels is a renowned Hollywood actor. The two should never cross paths, yet one summer everything changes. The actor, haunted by demons, chasing a ghost. The town, unaware. Until the two collide.
Hudson, Willow, and Mason are high school seniors with very different upbringings, but all on the verge of adulthood. As the sun sets on their final summer, questions abound. Will they ever leave the town? Is there a future here? As their plans waver, time is running out.
The struggle of mental illness…
Coffee In Manila
by Patrick Higgins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
What started online for Ryan Tipton in the quest for Maricel Arcamo’s heart, deepened considerably after he traveled halfway around the world to meet her in the Philippines. After spending one perfect week together, marriage seemed all but certain for the love-struck couple…
Their relationship quickly crumbled one week later, after Ryan remorsefully confessed to his new girlfriend that he never went back to the States the day she saw him off at the airport with her family. Instead, he remained in the Philippines another week to meet with two other women. With her world completely shattered, Maricel refused to accept Ryan’s phone calls, emails, or text messages.
Welfare Cheese to Fine Caviar:
How to Achieve Your Dreams Despite Your Upbringing
by Thomas Wideman
Rating: 5.0 #ad
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Thomas’s candid and inspiring story is a testament to how your attitude absolutely determines your aptitude. In a chilling moment of decision, Thomas embarked on a path to escape the poverty he was born into. The lessons learned from his education and struggles along the way continue to guide him in his professional career.
Are the cards stacked against you? Do you long for change, but don’t know how to bring it about? Do you dream of a future you fear is impossible to attain? Maybe you’ve escaped poverty and started your career only to secretly feel like you don’t belong.
The struggles you face seem insurmountable, but they are calling out the treasures inside you, shaping you into the confident and successful individual you’re intended to be. You can improve your life in ways you have never imagined.
Night Shift
by Stephen King
Rating: 4.7 #ad
More than twenty-five stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.