Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Dead in Dublin
by Catie Murphy
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Ferrying tourists around Dublin for the Leprechaun Limo Service makes quite a change after years in the military. Still, Megan Malone is enjoying her life in Ireland. She likes the scenery, the easy pace, the quirky, quick-witted locals. Everything – except having one of her clients drop dead at the statue of fabled fishmonger, Molly Malone.
Most restaurant critics notch up their share of enemies. Elizabeth Darr, however, was a well-loved international star. She and her husband, Simon, had just had dinner when Elizabeth collapsed, and spoiled seafood is the first suspect.
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(The Dublin Driver Mysteries)
The Killer’s Girl
by Helen Phifer
Rating: 4.5 #ad
When the body of a young woman is found, tied to her bed and the victim of a brutal attack in her own home, Detective Morgan Brookes is sickened by what she finds as she searches the house. And unprepared for the nightmares it inspires about her childhood.
When the DNA collected gives a positive ID, Morgan can’t wait to put the attacker behind bars. But the person it matches to is already in prison. How could the DNA of someone who has been locked up for over twenty years have shown up in Morgan’s crime scene? And then they make another close match. To Morgan herself.
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(Detective Morgan Brookes Mysteries)
Thief in the Castle
by Beatrice B. Morgan
Rating: 4.6 #ad
The notorious Juniper Thimble is destined for execution. Caught stealing the king’s crown—in addition to her long list of crimes—she has only one way out. Juniper must survive the biggest, most deadly con of her life, commissioned by the king himself. Disguised as the crown prince’s lover, she is forced to protect him with her life…literally. Guarded by a surly squire, relentlessly attacked by demons, and surrounded by mysteriously disappearing servants, Juniper must dispatch the threat to the prince’s life before they find out who she really is.
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(Stars and Bones Mysteries)
Garland
by Jacquelyn Evers
Rating: 3.9 #ad
If you have money, you can get in. But nothing will let you out if you discover their secret….
Tack is an asteroid-mining syndicate man, currently in prison, serving a long sentence for piracy and smuggling. Sayal is a colonial – seductive, beguiling and mysterious.
He has no idea who is about to buy-out his prison contract. She has no idea what he’s capable of…or how he’s managed to stay alive for so long, swimming with the syndicate sharks…together, they have to do something no one’s ever done before on Garland…that is no one who lived to spread the blockbuster news to all free galactic dominions.
Bridged
by Kendra Elliot
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After a congressman’s tortured body is found dangling from a Portland bridge, the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to investigate the case – and FBI Special Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer alongside the man who captured her heart, police detective Mason Callahan.
But once a third body appears and all evidence points to a serial killer, the public furiously clamors for answers – and the couple’s relationship grows fractured under the pressure. Ava and Mason search in the past for clues that predict the future.
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(Callahan & McLane Mysteries)
Montana Shootists
by Sandra Cox
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Present Day: Abby loved David all her life. Growing up they were inseparable. When he joined the Marines she did too.
1882: Jake Barrow is a part-time gambler, full-time hired gun. His decisions are based on hunches and the turn of a card. He’s in the foothills when a young woman comes tumbling down the mountain. Unsure whether Lady Luck has dealt him a good hand or a bad, he takes one look at the beauty at his feet and doesn’t need to shuffle the deck to know she’s his destiny. Then disaster struck.
Crimson Phoenix
by John Gilstrap
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Victoria Emerson is a congressional member of the U. S. House of Representatives for the state of West Virginia. Her aspirations have always been to help her community and to avoid the ambitious power plays of her peers in Washington D. C. Then Major Joseph McCrea appears on her doorstep and uses the code phrase Crimson Phoenix, meaning this is not a drill. The United States is on the verge of nuclear war. Victoria must accompany McCrea to a secure bunker. She cannot bring her family.
The Baron’s Bounty
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.4 #ad
Victoria Emerson is a congrShe was only a proxy. They were never meant to fall in love!
Isobel MacEwen is sent as her cousin’s proxy to marry Conlin de Braose, Baron of the Cinque Ports. But several months before she leaves Scotland, and on the same night that the baron’s ship is docked in port, she witnesses the murder of her Scottish king. From her hiding place on that stormy night, she only sees the murderer’s shoes as he walks by. Isobel’s weakness is shoes. She loves shoes and notices not only everyone’s feet, but the way they walk as well. Now a pair of shoes is the only clue to what really happened that night.
Lord Conlin de Braose of Sandwich has made an alliance. But he’s never met his betrothed, who he’s learned is called the Shrew of the Scots. Either way, he has a daughter to think of since the death of his wife. She needs a mother, and he needs the alliance with Scotland.
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(The Barons of the Cinque Ports Series)